Warlingham Rugby Club 2024 – A Grand Day Out!

Published December 11, 2024 | By johnblades

Surrey Branch at the Warlingham Rugby Club, Classic Car & Bike Show 14.7.2024.

The Surrey Branch represented the NOC at the WRC show on Sunday 14 July 2024.
This was the WRC year number nine for shows and we at the SNOC have been to most of them with a stand and display of Norton bikes.

This year we had twelve members bring along their bikes.
The event had an amazing atmosphere with so much interest in our display of bikes.
The branch also gave a donation to the WRC local charities that they were supporting at this event.

The Surrey branch had a large patch of the grass available for our Club Stand, so all the bikes could be spread out for visitors to look at and ask questions.
Steve Wakeman and his band of stewards and helpers do an incredible job of organizing and getting everyone settled into their own specific locations.
Those of our members that brought along their bikes for our display were as follows:-

Robert Tuck 1960 Dominator 99 De-Lux
Phillip Tuck 1968 750 Atlas
David Copper 1932 500cc Model 30 International
Howard Robinson 1974 850 Commando Interstate
Henry Dulat 1961 600 Dominator 99
Ken Rawlinson 1959 600 Dominator 99 Sport
David Brown 600 Dominator 99 cafe racer, with a Model 77 engine
Simon Smith 1973 750 Commando Roadster
John Summerfield 1929 500cc Model 18
Matt Creighton 1971 750 Commando Roadster
Martin Smith1974 MK2A Commando Roadster.

Martin Smith’s Commando had many Colorado Norton Works upgrades to its rebuild.
These included an electric starter, and some very impressive flat slide carburettors.
The colouring was a very impressive Tangerine Scène.

The top and bottom yokes were of billet alloy, and the front brake hydraulic brake fluid went through the lower yoke. The brake fluid line went into the bottom yoke, and exited out of it. It was so very well made that unless one looked closely it would not have been seen.

The bike also had a Corbin gunfighter seat. If Norton had produced a bike like Martin’s one, I am so very sure they would have sold so many more Commando’s.

The weather was good for the day, so we were not troubled by rain.

The SNOC branch has many other events planned that we shall be attending again this year, and we shall be having a stand at the Ardingly show on the 27 October 2024.