Norton Dominator Model 99
THE NORTON DOMINATOR. If you are going to call your motorcycle the Dominator, it had better live up to the name. For designer Bert Hopwood the Dominator was intended to do just that
Designed at first as a 500, the Dominator appeared in 1949 as the Model 7, with a rigid-framed 600 appearing shortly afterwards for the Australian market. The 600cc Model 77 ‘Smooth Look’ twin arrived in 1955, using Norton’s purposeful but unspectacular cradle frame. 1952 also saw the arrival of the first Norton twins to use the Wideline Featherbed frame, using commercial quality tubing rather than the racing quality Reynolds 531 used
