Though, normally, I am a fan of Roy Bacon's work, this publication is a bit of an anticlimax. It is meant to be a picture book, but looks like it was banged together, very un-Bacon if you like.

The early chapters are, with very few exceptions, reproductions of Norton catalogue pictures. From the featherbed era on, period (press) pictures are mixed with pictures of restored machines. The difference may be hard to tell for the layman, especially in the Commando years. This may lead to wrongly or individually fitted machines being taken as a reference by restorers, so an indication in the text was a benefit.

The rotary era is well covered, though here again I had preferred a picture of an actual F1 rather than of the prototype mock-up, and a standart F1Sports rather than one of the few "JPS" ones.

In my opinion, this book is not a must-have, and certainly the picture books compiled by Jim Reynolds are far better.