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I couldnât have put it better myself!

And editing it afterwards is cheating!

ps canât help with the toolkit, sorry!

It would be nice if someone would reply and include a picture. I have never seen an original toolkit but the Spare Parts List states the spanners were open ended and I expect that they were probably made by Shelley; box spanners were listed as an available extra.

They are really only of use for decoration; use 'real' spanners for proper work.

Patrick

Here is a pic of a tools set included in a Jubilee offered on ebay some time ago for a mere 23.000 $...

I did see that. That was one very expensive Jubilee but I have doubts about the tool kit. The 6" Pliers, Set of Feelers (2,4 and 12 thou), and Tool kit bag are missing. Also there should be two tyre levers and I personally would have expected the 1/4 x 3/16 spanner(part no SPU2/02) and the 5/16 x 3/8 spanner (part number SPU2/04) to match each other; I can't read the name on the spanner but they obviously don't match each other. The 1/8 spanner usually goes with the feeler gauges so it could be an odd one.

Hopefully someone knows.

The screwdriver looks like one from a Mecanno set.

I think it should be Meccano. Long time ago since I had one.

I had a screwdriver like that as a kid, too big for meccano I think but pretty common?

Dan

Andrew, do you have a copy of the Roy Bacon 'Norton Twin Restoration' book ? It has a lot of good quality images of odd parts of the bikes. A must-have if you're getting into the detail of things like toolkits !

Here is a picture captioned as the underseat area of a Jubilee. It shows the Rexine roll quite nicely.

One thing that occurs to me is that the kits may not have stayed the same with the shift of production from Birmingham to Woolwich. The R.T. Shelley connection would have come to an end.

The combination of forged and flat plate spanners is not uncommon and on the earlier models, pairs of tappet spanners were often one of each - the plate spanner was good enough for preventing rotation while the other did the work.

I have a couple of those wire screwdrivers and they are all marked 'Villiers Magento'. They are a little stronger than Meccano, but not much

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...and this is captioned as the 1960 '99' toolkit; It looks to have much in common with the kit shown above. There ought to be some clues at least.

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The screwdriver in the picture is correct. I found this picture in Motor Cycling dated 12 March 1959; it's the first road test of the Norton Jubilee 250.

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Previously Andrew Wibmer wrote:

Previously Ulrich Hoffmann wrote:

Here is a pic of a tools set included in a Jubilee offered on ebay some time ago for a mere 23.000 $...

Long time since I saw a screw driver like that, not the best of British Engineering then....

Nearly all vehicle tool kits came with this style screwdriver, They stow well and don't roll away. Hardened tip, and you can put a tyre lever through them for a bit of extra purchase. Mine has "Jaguar" stamped in it