![]() On receiving the machines he set about the engine change. was proving to be too heavy now in comparison with other manufacturers' scramblers and so Bob Blair envisaged the G.85 C.S./Atlas as the answer. ![]() Although the Atlas Scrambler had been competitive at the time, its successor the N.15 C.S. It was a very purposeful looking machine but the 500cc single engine was not powerful enough to be competitive in 200 to 1000 mile desert races. The two outer rear-brake fins were machined down to give clearance for the rear chain and the brake air vents were blanked off. 7R/Matchless G.50 road-racing type with the hub made of magnesium but was modified to accept heavy-duty spokes lacing an 18" WM3 rim to the conical hub. The front wheel was the 1963 Matchless item with slightly increased brake lining area. The front forks were the lighter type 'Teledraulic' scrambler unit with the small diameter stanchion tubes. The swinging arm was supported by gusset plates each side as on the ' Featherbed', and bearing on Metalastic bushes also common to that frame. It was similar in styling to the Rickman Metisse. duplex frame was made from Reynolds 531 chrome-molybdenum thin walled lightweight tubing with sifbronze welded-on sub-frame, a single spine top tube, and malleable steel headstock. The result would be to produce a lighter, faster prototype desert racer, culminating in a production run back at Plumstead of 2500 machines. were to go on via Los Angeles to the Western distributor, ZDS Motors of Glendale, California, where Bob Blair would be waiting to exercise his skills in marrying up the N.15 C.S. Nearly all of this complete order was to be shipped via New York to Berliner's New Jersey headquarters, but a few including that G.85 C.S. ![]() (earlier machines were built to special order in the competition shop). This day's consignment was part of a huge order numbering many hundreds of machines and also the first models of the only production run of 100 machines of the new G.85 C.S. and a Matchless G.85 C.S Scrambler 500cc single were being dispatched from Plumstead for shipment along with many other machines of various types.
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