Australian Motorcycles (C)

Cameron 1918 (SA)

Campbell (Tas.)

Carbine 1910~1914 (Sydney)

Carrison 1907~1909 (SA)

Castle

Source: Trove NLA

Cathro JAP 1918

Cathro

The brothers Richard S. and Hurtle A. Cathro of Hindmarsh are known to have built two motorcycles. The first (c.1918) was fitted with an early Chater-Lea brake drum, possibly sourced from Lewis.

They began construction of a second machine using a V-Twin JAP engine fitted to a later BSA frame. This was not completed owing to the passing of Hurtle in 1934, according to Terry Parker who briefly owned the motorcycle.

Source: VCCSA

Cattermole

Cattermole 1906

John Cattermole's Foreman-powered car at his Rundle Street shop. His son Leslie at age 15 is at the wheel.

John Robert Cattermole, blacksmith, migrated from UK and settled at Pt Elliott, then began a cycle works in Adelaide at 206 Rundle Street (also recorded as 240 Rundle-st in 1913). In about 1904 his son remembered the car being started, and it was on the streets by 1906. It used a rear-mounted water cooled 4½hp motor from UK, and from the advertisement for its sale it is gathered that the motor was a 'Foreman', made in Coventry from 1904. It was eventually gifte to Albert Bouquet, mechanic in the workshop, shown standing by the car.

John Cattermole also built a 2¾hp motorcycle with a Sphinx engine which was ridden by English cyclist and motorcyclist Harry Deards at a 1904 event on Jubilee Oval, said to have reached 60mph. Deards may have been employed by C D Kinnear, wool farmer of Tickera with an office in Grenfell Street where his 1906 10hp Argyll was registered. Deards was apprehended for driving it at night in 1907 with no lamps lit. He attempted a ride to Melbourne in October 1904 on the Cattermole Sphinx, but no record of his success or otherwise has been found. In 1905 he was setting records on a 6hp V-twin Minerva built by Arthur Allison.

Source: Terry Parker of the VVMCSA.

Charleston 1907 (SA)

Clifton

SA Registrations
7659. A Edwards, 32 Sturt Street, 4¼ Clifton.
The Register (Adelaide, SA) Wed 26 Jan 1916

Source: Trove NLA

Clipper

Manufactured by A.E. Moore, Honeysuckle Point, Newcastle. 1913

Source: Trove NLA

Comet-Minerva (Vic.)

Cottman Colt

Manufactured by Cottman and Co, Melbourne in the 1930s using Royal Enfield 225cc two-strokes. Images from restoration of a Cottman show very similar frame and front and rear guards to the 1932 Royal Enfield Model A (with single downtube), so they may have been rebadged machines. Forks are pressed metal, as fitted to later models of the 225cc Enfields.

Around 1940 Cottman and Co moved into the former Turner premises at 291-293 Elizabeth St, Melbourne.

Sources: historicvintagerestorations.com/, classicmotorcycleforum.com

Craig Beat-All 1914~18 (S.A.)

Crean

Manufactured in Hamilton, Victoria, c.1909-1913.

Production of the Crean motorcycle ceased around 1913 but the firm continued to advertise the Precision Big 4, and were agents for Triumph, J.A.P, Veloce, Peerless and Overseas Motors until 1919 when it dropped motorcycles and became a sports store.

Source: Jason Palmer at VVC

Cressy

Possibly built in Cressy, near Launceston Tasmania, by the Waltey Bros during the WWI years.

Source: Simon Fleming.

Criterion

Registration records in South Australia
2½ Criterion motorcycle, Jan 1917.
9316, E. J. Hender, Mount Barker. 2½ Criterion. Sat 10 Feb 1917

Source: Trove NLA

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