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This is an optional tachometer and bracket for the 62'-63' Norton 88ss and 650ss bikes that I stole on Ebay recently. It has it's original hardware and grommets which are the really hard things to find. The bolts are hollow and threaded inside to go over the studs on the back of the tach and are drilled and safety wired at the factory. Two of the grommets are stepped to fit into holes and capture the bracket with no metal to metal contact at all.
A similar bracket was put on the 61' American spec Manxman and optional for other bikes that year, but it did not have the cutaway for a lighted rc1309 tach. The earlier bikes I have seen with non-lighted tachs have a rc1302 tach on them.
The brackets pop up for sale now and then, but the special satin-chromed bolts, washers and the grommets are just about impossible to find on demand unless you want to make them.
Funny how a handful of bolts and washers and grommets can be absolutely boring and useless to the entire world population except for two or three people. Mine and Jack's wives would throw them out the window along with the magic beans....