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The Skalbanias hand Norton over to the Aquilinis as they can not pay the money back they borrowed to buy it. From now on everything left is sold off, with accompanying ridiculous statements about "putting a new management into place" and "being aggressive about the Norton name", all faithfully reprinted in "Roadholder". In 1997 we decide to bring out a new Norton. BMW agrees to supply us with engines, and the prototype is ridden to the Birmingham Show by Geoff Duke that year. This wakes the Aquilinis from their slumber. Production starts in 1998 and is finished by spring 2000.

The Aquilinis are not willing to risk a penny of their own money. So they bring their doubtful Trade Mark rights into a firm named "March Motors Inc.", now renamed "Norton Motors International, Inc.", which is having a V8-motorcycle developed by MCD in England. The Norton "Dementis" V8 is, predictably, never production ready. In desperation they ask us to develop the "Combat", a successor to the proven "International". By the time the "Combat is ready, on time and inside budget, Norton International Inc. is broke. The Norton factory in Lichfield/England, supposedly the property of the Aquilinis (even though it was always listed as an asset in the various reincarnations of Norton Motorcycles, Inc.) is sold off to a motorcycle enthusiast who has won millions of Pounds in a lottery, Mr.Moore. In January 2003 the Norton Trademark is sold to Norton America. Norton Motors GmbH had concentrated on spares supply since ending motorcycle production in spring 2000.

Mr Moore, the owner of the ex-Norton factory in England, dies, and in November 2004 the content of the Norton factory in Shenstone is auctioned off. Norton Motors Ltd, a company owned by us and managed by Richard Negus, aquires all Norton Rotary spares, tooling and technical drawings and in March 2004 commences business in Rugeley, not far from the old factory with a staff of 3 (www.nortonmotors.co.uk). In March 2007, through the disentanglement of BSA-Regal Group of its motorcycle interests, we get the opportunity to aquire Andover Norton International Ltd, the manufacturer of all Genuine Norton Factory Parts for the pre-1977 Norton models. On 2nd April we complete the deal and through this all traditional Norton Motors parts are re-united in one hand again. More can be read under www.andover-norton.co.uk.