The Isle of Man government has done a deal with the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham to bring a collection of 30 historically significant Norton race bikes to the Classic TT in August, forming a temporary pop-up museum in the paddock.
It will include 13 Norton rotaries due to appear in a parade lap plus a couple of rotary prototypes and the 1992 bike current TT star William Dunlop is set to race in the Formula One post-classic event. Rembrandt Fowler’s Peugeot-engined inaugural 1907 TT-winning Norton will be there too, as well as Geoff Duke’s 1949 Norton Manx on which he took his first TT victory.