Dreadnought Motorcycles
Dreadnought was a motorcycle produced circa 1902 possibly made by Rodgers Brothers
The name was used on a special built by Harold Karslake, which had a 402cc De Dion engine and twin exhaust pipes from its single valve, and that varied over the years.
Motorcycle '...built in 1902, by Mr. Harold Karslake, himself a well-known rider in reliability trials, who has twice won medals with the machine — a Dreadnought — on the London to Edinburgh and back trial. Mr. Karslake is better known, however, to the younger generation of motor-cyclists, and to the racing fraternity, the fact that he is the timekeeper at Trent-lane, during the dirt-track season.'[1]
Having survived the test of time, the machine is now owned by the Vintage Motor Cycle Club.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 11 February 1930
The British Motorcycle Directory - Over 1,100 Marques from 1888 - by Roy Bacon and Ken Hallworth. Pub: The Crowood Press 2004 ISBN 1 86126 674 X