Bob Holidays book was first published in 1979, and as such is one of the first "picture books" on Norton history. It has a nice assortment of black and white Norton pictures, from the very beginning to the mid-seventies when, as the author wrongly states, "by the end of 1975, a near-75 years of continuous Norton motorcycle production came, sadly, to a halt." Not only did it go on with the Commando 850Mk3 for another couple of years, but by the time the book was written, a little pre-production run of rotaries was being assembled in a disused meat storage facility in Shenstone, Staffs.

This said, it is a nice book; not one that is a "must" in a Norton library, but enjoyable, even though most of the photos have been seen in many a publication before and since.