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unusual facts about Featherbed frame


Featherbed frame

The new frame stood up well to tests and saw its UK launch at Blandford Camp in Dorset in April 1950.


Doug Hele

Moore encouraged him to go to the Norton factory, where he helped Polish engineer Leo Kusmicki design and develop the Featherbed framed Manx Norton single-cylinder racing models that won world championships in the early 1950s.


see also

Norton Dominator

The Featherbed frame was designed for Norton by the McCandless brothers and made by the Reynolds company because the Norton works did not have the necessary welding capacity for its manufacture.