Here two more photos taken in 1955 on "Solitude", Stuttgart, Germany.
Carl Hertweck, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "das Motorrad", on a short test-drive and demonstrating the inclination in curves.
The vehicle had the original-parts of a Norton 500 Dominator-Twin from the steering-head to the rear. Instead of the front fork, there was a suspension of two 16''-wheels which could be inclined parallel in curves. Up to approx. 40 km/
h, the tilt function was blocked by a lever.
This lock then had to be released manually by the driver, and, of course, had to be locked again before stopping, otherwise...
C.H. the driving behaviour of this vehicle was so suspicious that he forbade his employees to drive with it.
But one of them (Ernst Leverkus, called "Klacks") begged until he was allowed to drive, but only "very, very carefully".
Anyone who knows a little about Klacks, can imagine how long this warning lasted.
At 130-140 km/h, it went through a gentle downhill right-hand bend and he left the road with his right front wheel (he had probably forgotten that this 'Domi' had two front wheels), due to the movement during bouncing the latch snapped in the vertical position, the vehicle left the roadway and whizzed down a slope. Klacks was ejected and probably only suffered only bruises.
When he arrived back at the top in a reasonably good condition, he was first embraced by his boss and then shat together.
