At the age of 12 Bruno Rossati began working eleven hour days.
"Now, approaching 91, I find myself reminiscing about my youth, still riding my motorcycle every day.
Letter re Ladetto
Manufactured by Jack Krown, corner of Elizabeth and Albert Street, Brisbane. He is also recorded as having a workshop in Stanley Street, South Brisbane.
Krown, a bicycle racer who migrated from Sweden in 1895, began riding pacers in 1900 at the Brisbane cycle track.
His motorcycles were fitted with Minerva engines.
A report from Sat 25th Oct 1904, Woolloongabba Cricket Ground: "John Krown, Dunlop 2¾hp" (and others including David Spencer, Spencer 3hp.
A report from July 1905 mentions a 2 horsepower Krown and Spencer. This is David Spencer, a fellow motorcycle racer who built Spencer motorcycles in Brisbane.
"Five-mile Motor Cycle Race, to be contested at the L.Q.W sports on Saturday...
First heat C. Pond, Krown, 2 ¾ h.p, 40sec."
The Brisbane Courier, Wed 1 Aug 1906
Sources: blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au, Trove, Terry Parker.
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