Norman went to school and college in Rhodesia and started his working career as an apprentice in a Ford dealership. He raced a 250cc Ducati in Rhodesia and remembers well, being on track racing against world champion Mike Hailwood who over took Norman 3 times in a 20 lap race.  On moving to England Norman raced a Greeves Silverstone and worked at London's main Lotus dealership. At the end of 1971 he joined Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd. where he was a mechanic and a fabricator for the next 3 years. He was a mechanic at 3 Indianapolis 500 races. Norman worked with Peter Revson, David Hobbs and later Alain De Cadenet at the Le Mans 24 hour race after leaving McLaren.  In the years that followed, his race car experience served him well in building the Hossack engine and the Hossack double wishbone motorcycle system which he is best known for. During the following years Norman developed his CAD (computer aided design) skills which served him well in his next career moves. His final career move was into designing medical devices for heart surgery. This move took him and his family to the USA where he designed devices for heart and artery visualization. Several of these products are still in production today. Norman retired in 2017.