Autumn Workshop Update

[@mikecartlidge5355]

Great video Sammy, thank you for sharing your tips on sheet metal working, things like that can come in very handy. Am hoping the eventually see your museum for real in the early part of 2023.

[@derf9465]

Remember when Miller had the place in gore road. Believe that was the old rickman metisse place. This place is awesome, anyone into motorcycles, just go, no shed Queens here, all run, loads of one off specials and racing bikes, a two stroke triumph!!! A redrup radial! its brilliant.

[@timothynorris4288]

Fantastic as always.

[@alexcallas8222]

The ageless Sammy Miller will be 89 years old November 11, 2022!

[@pashakdescilly7517]

It would be great to see the timing side of that 1939 Norton 1000 twin. I have an idea that this is a machine made by a Norton employee called Collier, using two ohv engines. That machine had extra cam followers in the underside of the timing chest, and rockers to power a second set of pushrods on the outside of the normal ones. This machine was mentioned in an article about this Norton development engineer published in Classic Bike many years ago. I don't remember which date.

[@pashakdescilly7517]

BTW this engineer is the man who made the pivoted fork conversion on the lug-frame Nortons. He took a plunger frame home on a Friday, and returned on Monday with a rear fork bike. For some reason Renolds of tubing fame could not make more than 20 featherbed frames per week, and customers were shying away from the old models from Norton. So Collier decided to make a new frame for Norton.

[@retromechanicalengineer]

Great catch up. I was at the museum last month, researching my next project. I had a covetous peek into the workshop! Best wishes, Dean at Retromeccanica, Oxfordshire.

[@fanbatcher]

Whatever happened to the pre-war Cotton he did a cabling tutorial on? Is it in the museum or was it a restoration for a customer? Just love the Cotton’s of the 1930’s.