Featured Pages "I wants to make yer flesh creep" Some Gruesome Relics of Bygone Days seen by the Motor Cyclist on Tour
Wayside GibbetsThe Mother of Invention "I recommend that you maintain the business connection with Daimler. His invention is entirely trustworthy, and it will have a future, the magnitude of which we cannot begin to imagine today."
Levassor, Panhard and the woman who brought it all together - Louise SarazinHawker Motorcycles An obscure marque built by an Australian. He is the Hawker of Hurricane and Harrier fame.
Harry Hawker
Smith and Millroy of Orpinton, Kent, produced a few motorcycles
circa 1901.
This firm, owned and run by Frank Smith and Jack Milroy,
produced a few primitive motorcycles, probably by fitting an improted engine
to a bought-in frame.
Note: The firm later produced the Orpington car in the 1920s.