The featherbed frame was a motorcycle frame invented by the McCandless brothers and offered to the British Norton motorcycle company to improve the performance...

1953 it had a single downtube swinging-arm frame. From 1959 it used the Rex McCandless-designed featherbed frame, with upgrades including an improved AMC...

available to export markets as the Model 88 with the Featherbed frame. Later, as production of this frame increased, it became a regular production model,...

Moto-Guzzi, Harley-Davidson and Indian) used steel tubing. Examples Norton Featherbed frame Most Ducati Motorcycles Honda CB750 Unlike the development seen in...

the Norton featherbed frame was regarded as the best handling frame. Triton bikes aimed to combine the "best engine" with the "best frame" by replacing...

500 cc to 600 cc From 1960 model year, the featherbed frame for all Dominators was altered so that the frame tubes in front of the seat were narrower,...

type of peatland forming in particular conditions. The featherbed frame, a type of motorcycle frame originally designed for performance racing, named for...

Bonneville engine in a Norton Featherbed frame. A less common hybrid was the "Tribsa", which had a Triumph engine in a BSA duplex frame. Other hybrids included...

engine from the frame and rider. The isolastic frame was developed for use with the Commando inclined engine, whilst the Featherbed frame continued in production...

the engine continued almost from first to last unchanged, the famed featherbed frame was adopted for the 1953 models. By the 1950s though, the model was...

Norton Featherbed frame and a Triumph Bonneville engine. It used the most common and fastest racing engine combined with the best handling frame of its...

all-welded, tubular featherbed frame was light and trim, without the usual forgings that added unnecessary weight. In 1950, the featherbed Manx recorded a...

Norton-Villiers from 1968 to 1970. It was the last Norton model to use the 'featherbed' frame. Following the collapse of AMC and the subsequent formation of Norton...

1952 to 1966. It was the first of Norton's motorcycles to use the featherbed frame, which established Norton's reputation of producing fine handling machines...

was popular in café racers such as Tribsas (BSA frame) and particularly Tritons (Norton featherbed frame). The 650 cc T120 Bonneville, was joined in 1973...

Norton featherbed frame enhanced the problem and was not designed in compliance with good engineering principles. Bauer designed a new frame around a...

this is a Triumph engine in a Norton Featherbed frame. The idea was to marry the best engine to the best frame to make something that has the best of...

Tribsa was the Triton which combined a Triumph engine in a Norton Featherbed frame, a chassis which had yielded victories in the Isle of Man TT for Norton...

appeared c. 1962 it was being called a 750cc Atlas, with Norton's famous Featherbed frame. Designer Bert Hopwood’s 1949 497cc Dominator engine had been bored...

fitted to other frames. The most common was the Norvin, using a Norton Featherbed frame. Other names were used, including Vincent–Norton, Vinton, and Vin–Nor...

single 1964–1966 Model 50 OHV 348cc 1955–1958 Popular single with featherbed frame from 1959 popular for Triton conversion Model 50 OHV MK 2 348cc 1964–1966...

swinging arm 'featherbed frame' to produce the lighter and better handling Model 88 in 1952, production of the Model 7 continued as the featherbed was thought...

Model 50 single restarted in 1956. After 1959 the Model 50 gained the Featherbed frame, Lucas RM15 crank-mounted alternator (upgraded from magneto/dynamo...

Norton was like "riding on a featherbed" compared with riding the "garden gate" - and it has been called the Featherbed frame ever since. After his motorcycle...

steel chaincase. The gearbox had 4 speeds. The combination of slimline featherbed frame and Roadholder forks used on the Dominators was carried forward to...

"works" AJS Porcupine as well as the first appearance of the Norton featherbed frame. The international nature of the event was somewhat diminished by a...

to the rider through the Featherbed frame of the Norton Atlas, that it was dropped in favour of an earlier experimental frame (based on a concept bike...

He was the brother of Rex McCandless who designed the successful featherbed frame used by the Norton Motorcycle Company. Isle of Man Courier page 2 &...

cotton or wool) is called a flockbed. A feather-filled tick is called a featherbed, and a down-filled one is a downbed; these can also be used above the...

persuaded Harold Daniell, the Isle of Man TT racer who named the Norton Featherbed frame, to enter a standard Norton Navigator in a race at Silverstone race...