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Looking for more info on a Donalson Jockey Cycle

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Bike from the Dead

I live for the CABE
Earlier on this Wednesday, my dad was at a local fire museum, and I guess they had some stuff in storage they didn't want/need anymore, so they offered to just give him whatever he wanted out of what was there. Among the stuff he took home with him was a bike (that'll I'll get to next,) and this weird little old trike. I did some digging, and learned what he acquired is a "Donalson Jockey Trike," made by the J.E. Donalson Manufacturing Company sometime in the 1940s, about 1944-48. From what I've read, they didn't make a ton of these, maybe 100, before they went out of business. I'm not sure how much of this info is correct, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Dad's Jockey Cycle seems to be mostly complete, save for the handlebars and a few missing spokes on one wheel. If anyone here knows more about these Jockey Cycles, please let me know. Dad and I would both love to learn more about this curious little trike.
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Also, here's what this thing looks like in motion, for those like me who wanted to know:
 
Earlier on this Wednesday, my dad was at a local fire museum, and I guess they had some stuff in storage they didn't want/need anymore, so they offered to just give him whatever he wanted out of what was there. Among the stuff he took home with him was a bike (that'll I'll get to next,) and this weird little old trike. I did some digging, and learned what he acquired is a "Donalson Jockey Trike," made by the J.E. Donalson Manufacturing Company sometime in the 1940s, about 1944-48. From what I've read, they didn't make a ton of these, maybe 100, before they went out of business. I'm not sure how much of this info is correct, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Dad's Jockey Cycle seems to be mostly complete, save for the handlebars and a few missing spokes on one wheel. If anyone here knows more about these Jockey Cycles, please let me know. Dad and I would both love to learn more about this curious little trike.
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Also, here's what this thing looks like in motion, for those like me who wanted to know:
WOW!! Too COOOL, a bike and a TRIKE.. Man some guys got all the luck.. Congrats Austin...
 
WOW!! Too COOOL, a bike and a TRIKE.. Man some guys got all the luck.. Congrats Austin...
I'm usually pretty good at finding great deals on bikes (I have to be since I only have so much money to play with,) but my Dad's certainly got a reputation, especially around where his shop is, for collecting rusty gold. That reputation certainly paid off this time!
 
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