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Celebrated racer, inventor and Norton icon, Engineer Peter Williams passed away this month. As a youth in the 1970s I regarded top-level racing as somewhat distant and secretive – a club I didn’t belong to.
In early 1967, Williams marketed an engineering solution to enable a proprietary disc brake assembly produced and merchandised by Rickman Motorcycles to be fitted to Manx Norton and AJS 7R/Matchless G50 racing machines.
Jul 19, 2017 · This is perhaps not surprising as it was not designed for and not homologated as a road cam. I very much doubt if Norton Villiers could have got the Commando through noise testing fitted with it. Peter did confirm that increased overlap was the cause of this characteristic.
Oct 20, 2017 · On the race track, Peter Williams won the 1973 Formula 750 TT with team mate Mick Grant in second place. This was to prove Norton's last TT success with a reciprocating engine, sixty six years after their first.
Peter had a fascinating story – he was the man to beat on both the circuits and at the TT, where he won the 1973 Formula 750 speed race at a record speed on his designed Norton Villiers Triumph (NVT), John Player Special (JPS) (pictured).
Dec 25, 2020 · The NVT (Norton Villiers Triumph) project to pair up with engine designers Cosworth and build a state-of-the-art motorcycle engine using parts from the most successful Formula 1 engine in history sounds too good to be true.
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Dec 23, 2020 · Peter Williams celebrating his win at the Isle of Man in 1973. (Cycle World Archives/) Peter Williams, designer of the celebrated monocoque Norton racebike, has died. He was 81. The son of Jack and Thora Williams, Peter had grown up immersed in his distinguished father’s world of racebike enginee...
