Early Motorcycle Photos thread

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[DaytonandElgin]

About 1925. (San Diego Historical Society, and CaliSphere.)

 

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[DaytonandElgin]

Flying Merkel, about 1912. (Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library at Oakland, and CaliSphere.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Some medical personnel from Cooperative Diagnostic Laboratories, in front of the Scherer Building, 736 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, 1930.

(USC Digital Library, and CaliSphere.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Dayton's mean machine, World War I era. (Photo courtesy of David D. Jackson.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Restored 1913 Dayton Big Twin, with Hine-Watt Columbia headlight, and Stewart speedometer. The machine sold for $88,000 at the 2021 Mecum Auctions, Las Vegas.

(Five photos by Mecum Auctions. One picture of speedometer from OldMotoDude.)

 

[DaytonandElgin]

Motorcycles are in the majority at Bishop, Calif., near the White Mountains and Death Valley. (Loyola Marymount Library, and CaliSphere.)

 

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