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 gifted 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.
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