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Missing numbers in the NOC Hybrid history write-up - help please?

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I am new to NOC having just purchased a hybrid, a 1965 matchless G15 CS. It's been confirmed as a genuine matching numbers bike by "Jampot" dating service. I see on the NOC web site there is a great write up of the history of the hybrids but on page 1 there is a gap in the engine numbers between 110774 and 111926 as the models changed. Why is there a gap in the web site numbers or am i mis-reading?.
Guess what, mine is in the missing group (110816) - so how do I pin down exactly what it's build spec is? Interestingly my engine is stamped G15CS xxxxx M2 and has been identified as a mark 2. Ignition is coils.
Clearly mysterious bikes and i'm very much looking forward to engaging with any expert members at NOC.  Best,  Derek

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Welcome to the NOC 
I suggest that you email Anthony Curzon, the Club's technical adviser on hybrids. If he doesn't know the answers to your question then I doubt that anyone does!
Anthony's email is: hybrids@nortonownersclub.org.

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Thanks Tim, that's very helpful. I have just sent Anthony an email. If anything comes to light that might be of interest to others in the club, i will add it to this forum trail.

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This bike is a 1964 dispatched Matchless G15Mk2. I have answered the questions that Derek has sent me.  The engine numbers back then were stamped with the G15CS designation, but the engine number gives G15CS/ ******/M2 which was how the G15Mk2 was engine stamped back in 1964 at Plumstead. 

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All Nortons post war were numbered consecutively regardless of model. So one number could be a G15CS the next number could have been a Jubilee. The records aren't missing for that sequence, but they are sadly lacking in any information. Probably due to AMC record keeping at that time.
Paul
Twin records officer.

 

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