Joe Craig - Making Norton famous is a unique compilation of photographs from the Craig family collection. The accompanying text written by reputed motorcycling author and journalist Mick Duckworth evokes the golden age of single-cylinder Nortons in international motorcycle racing.
If any single person deserves credit for Norton’s extraordinary decades of racing dominance from 1930 through the mid-1950s, it must be Joe Craig. The de facto racing team manager for Norton under several owners, Craig at first successfully raced the factory product himself in the 1920s, then switched to the role of development engineer in 1930.
He held that position (despite a break from the company during WW2) through 1955, when postwar company owners Associated Motor Cycles (AMC) decided exotic factory specials could no longer be supported financially, and focussed on selling factory catalogued racers like the Norton Manx, AJS 7R, and Matchless G50 models, all of which were produced simultaneously under their corporate ownership
Joe Craig - Making Norton famous, photographs from the Craig family collection has 218 pages. Text in English.
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