Further to the earlier family snap here it’s companion: the kids camping on the beach cram aboard the Norton steed. My uncles bookend the line-up: David on the tank up front and Jimmy perched atop the pillion pad at the rear. My mother, Joan, sandwiched third from the back. The other kids? Family friends also living wild on the summertime Cresswell Dunes.
A nice photo of a clean example of the 16H – I now need to find one of these under an oily tarp in some barn now.
The final image? It’s the open hold of SS Thislegorm stacked with coral encrusted Nortons resting on the floor of the Red Sea after coming a cropper from some German ‘wolf’. These may be a bit beyond repair… As well as being a perfectly good marine habitat. A barn it’ll have to be!