Nortons Trailers

[cider_eater]

I never see Nortons Trailers now a days just wonder why, good trailers ??

 

[Martin Holden]

Local production and local sales close to Aust by the Severn. They were a relatively small company that didn’t expand like the others of the day, Salop, Giffiths, Collins, Weeks and Fraser to name but a few!

 

[robs1]

There were a lot of them around this area back in the day, they were one of the first with the monocoque body when most were still using drop sides with bolt on extra bits for grain and silage

 

[Drago]

Blimey there still trading . I thought they disappeared in the 1990s due to receivership. We had 4 of there trailers back in the day. I see from website current owners bought in 2000.

 

[Steevo]

Still have a couple of grain and a couple of bale trailers here - can't really fault them.

Maybe not the heaviest build....but that means they are light when empty too.

 

[sahara]

We have one of their grain trailers and our neighbour has two. Like @Steevo said, cant really fault them, Nice trailers that ride well, would happily have another.

 

[Nearly]

25 years ago Dad said I could choose 2 new 10t silage trailers to replace our pair of 7t Armstrong and Holmes.
Budget £10k.
Wow, responsibility!
I did extensive research and decided 4 second hand 10t Nortons from one estate were a better deal.
Bought them off Nick Crummack and 2 arrived on a low loader a few days later.
Dad commented they didn't look that new. I said, neither will the next two.
Lightweight trailers but great for Ford 7740 up hills.
They hauled everything for 6 years and sold in our machinery sale in 2001 for £50 less than I paid for them.

 

[Steevo]

25 years ago Dad said I could choose 2 new 10t silage trailers to replace our pair of 7t Armstrong and Holmes.
Budget £10k.
Wow, responsibility!
I did extensive research and decided 4 second hand 10t Nortons from one estate were a better deal.
Bought them off Nick Crummack and 2 arrived on a low loader a few days later.
Dad commented they didn't look that new. I said, neither will the next two.
Lightweight trailers but great for Ford 7740 up hills.
They hauled everything for 6 years and sold in our machinery sale in 2001 for £50 less than I paid for them.

Well....you had rubbed the paint off them!

 

[BredRedHfd]

Still going strong. 25+ years old

 

[Ormond]

Dad bought a new Norton back in the 80's.....got it in the same colours as his fiat....looks well back in the day I'll try and hunt a picture out

 

[Dog Bowl]

There were a lot of farms around here with them. Neighbour had 2 8t Nortons, painted green and yellow with silage sides and towed them behind his 3760 JD trailed forager that was being pulled with a 3350 ?

 

[Nearly]

Well....you had rubbed the paint off them!

There wasn't a lot of paint on them when they arrived.
Highlight was going silaging on the away land and driving in convoy with new 7840 with forager and pair of 7740's each with a pair of trailers behind.
We went past the yard of a neighbour as he walked across the yard. Perfect.
I never did get any photo's of machinery or work in the 90's.

 

[Oscar]

Fairly big farmer/ businessman ( sold cows = ready cash available)bought the rights etc to Norton ,based near Weston super Mare . They did start building again and locally were advertising them but I m 40 miles away and can t remember when I last heard about the brand so guessed they stopped building trailers . As others said , here in Somerset back in the 80 s , they were the trailers to have .

 

[Martin87]

There were loads around me , farmers had them painted in their colours . Farm I lived on had grain, dump and bale trailers.

 

[Brisel]

Norton were built for a price. I've got an old 10t one I cut up to convert into a bowser carrier.

 

[SRRC]

I bought 3 monos back in the early 1980s, probably got grant towards them too. They let you choose paint colour.
I've still got all three, the 6t single axle ones are only used for odds and sods jobs, but the 7t one with the pivoting twin axles is on muck duties all the time. Still plenty of paint on them, odd repairs but generally really good.
Norton even supplied me with some new axle pivots back along.
Are they still trading?

 

[sahara]

We got some ram seal from them last year, so I guess so, for parts at least.

 

[Ormond]

1986

 

[Steevo]

1986

Neighbour drove past me with their "Norton Contractor" yesterday - your picture reminded me of that as the base unit looks a bit similar.

 

[Ormond]

Fairly sure the back door for the grain or half of it was across the top at the back....like a little roof. Not great at grass would sit on it and rot it....we made a box section brace instead and then you could leave the grain door in tack. Trailer has been gone from us a good few years now