Ideal
J.A.P. Motors to order. Singles £53
Twins £65. Any machine part payment.
"Ideal" Motor. 29 Victoria Avenue Albert
Park. Phone 10.178.
Winner Wed 21 Apr 1915 (Trove NLA)
Weekly Times, 26 February, 1916 p. 41. (Trove NLA)
Illawarra 1903-1905 (N.S.W.)
Imperial
A c.1918 motorcycle exists with name Imperial fitted with a JAP 6 h.p. V-twin and Sturmey Archer CS gearbox. Saward suggests that it may have been built by the Imperial Motor & Cycle Co. who bought the Kadina, S.A., branch of the Empire Motor & Cycle Co in 1915.
Dun's gazette for New South Wales, May 17, 1915 (Trove NLA)
Source: Robert Saward
Imperial Star
Saward reports that an Imperial Star with a Fafnir engine appears in Tasmanian registration records. An article from the VMCC reveals that it belonged Cyril Burdeu of Ascot Vale of Victoia who died at Gallipoli in 1915, and that some of the components were available as early as 1907.
Sources: Robert Saward; vmcc.com.au/file/16399/15443.
Invincible
Saward writes of a photograph showing an Invincible motorcycle fitted with a Precision Big Four engine which appears to be a Healing machine from around 1915 fitted with a Peerless fork. It does not appear to be connected with the Turner Bros whose Invicible-JAP did not appear until 1922.
Source: Robert Saward
Invincible-JAP 1922~1928
Irene
Manufactured by Irene Cycle Depot, 95 Nicholson Street, Footscray, Victoria.
Bert Yewers is recorded as having built several motorcycles in 1907 and advertised machines built to order in the years 1911 to 1913 before closing in 1915.
Sources: Robert Saward; Trove NLA
Iris 1922~1928
Ixion
Manufactured by Ixion Cycle Works, 116 High-street, St. Kilda, Melbourne, 1912~1916.
In Last Twelve Months.
(portion omitted)
Our Motor Cycles to order, with Precision, Japs., Fafnirs, Peerless Engine, or order. Famous as our racing bikes. Cut this out; and remember when ordering next machine for that extra burst of speed, it must be an Ixion. Special price for cash sales in new districts. Catalogues. 116 High-street, St. Kilda.
The Age, Mon 6 Jan 1913. (Trove NLA)
The firm was still trading in bicycles until at least 1925.
Rarer Australian Marques