1957 Model 50 PreF/bed Rear mudguard and Centre Stand Spring.

I got my pre-featherbed mudguards from the club. The rear was OK, but I hated that the captured nuts were metric threads instead of the correct threads. The front mud guard was horrible. The arc was all wrong. I had to take a pie cut out of each side & reform. It looks good now & is ready for paint. Then I found an original front fender!!! Now I have 2 !

My centerstand spring also came from Noril, mine also didnt fit, then I realised I was missing the special "hook" part that goes on the frame

Now it fits fine

Hopefully here is some photo's of the rear guard, any chance of you listing the part numbers of the springs as I to have had to narrow an earlier stand, Neil how did you enjoy New Zealand?

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Previously Neil Wyatt wrote:

Any chance of a picture of this special hook, Skip or failing that, a part number? Thanks for that.

Alan, Side stand is number 060768LSS and the Centre stand: 16937 but please take on board comments from Skip and I.

Thank you for the mudguard pictures, I think I will be going down the wideline route as there only appears two choices of Norton rear mudguards. Although the front one should have the 57 on version with the V on the front, I have a ready to fit 56 version from a Dommie. Doubt many would notice.

I have to say that if it wasn't for Ian R in Victoria, AUS and Skip, Stateside with the engine plates and rear engine plate / mudguard fixing over the S/A respectively I would have shelved the project a year since. Just about to start on the 59 engine! (If you need these engine plates in the future, I will be donating the spare set Ian made for me to the club as a template, now that I can confirm they are a perfect fit)

Just a quick one Alan, on NZ. A wonderful place, wonderful people and a fantastic Classic scene on perfect roads. (As long as you stay out of Auckland) I never went to Wellington BTW. A visit to South Island is on the menu but it is a bloody long way. I must get that brief write up done for the editor, with some pictures!

PS: Can we get a consensus on the original horn location?

Hi Neil, I have done quite a bit of reading -Bacon/Wilson books etc,and onmost period photo's that I have seen there is no visible horn, also I have a 1957 parts book, the horn p/n 70140A crosses to a Lucas HF1441, which is the same horn as on Skips Bike, I suspect somehow it mounts on the bracket that I postedthe photo of? Yes my own bike has the horn on the front mount but I believe it has been put there as the engine stud is not long enough and it appears to be the earlier model horn.