Australian Motorcycles (I)

Ideal 1910-1916

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.

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.

Motor Cycles built to order from £45. The Advertiser Sat 11 May 1912; Sat 11 Jan 1913.

Sources: Robert Saward; Trove NLA

Iris 1922~1928

Irving-Vincent

Ixion 1912~1916 (Vic.)

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