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Autoped motor scooter
Autoped motor scooter
This lightweight scooter was built in 1918 by the Autoped Company of America, Long Island City, New York. It bears the number D3201 on the left side of the engine.
Era: 1890-1930
Cleveland motorcycle
Cleveland motorcycle
This motorcycle, bearing engine number 5283, cost $175.00 in 1918 at the Cleveland Motorcycle Company in Cleveland, Ohio. Advertisements of the period claimed this machine could travel 75 miles on a gallon of gasoline and that it had a top speed of from 35 to 40 miles an hour. This make of...
Region: East North Central, South Atlantic
      
State: DC, OH
      
Era: 1890-1930
Cushman motor scooter
Cushman motor scooter
Era: 1945-1975
Evel Knievel jacket and motorcycle
Evel Knievel jacket and motorcycle
1972 XR-750 custom Harley Davidson used for jumping by daredevil Evel Knievel in the mid-1970s
Era: 1945-1975
Harley-Davidson model 9-B motorcycle
Harley-Davidson model 9-B motorcycle
The museum's 1913 Harley-Davidson, bearing engine number 4336-D and known as the Model 9-B, "5-35" (5 horsepower; 35 cubic inches displacement), originally sold for $235.00 at the factory in Milwaukee, but it was purchased secondhand in 1918 by the donor, who used it for several years. It was...
Era: 1890-1930
Harley-Davidson motorcycle
Harley-Davidson motorcycle
A rare wartime 1942 Model 74 custom twin. It belonged to Jorge Ubico, president of Guatemala.
Region: International
      
Era: 1929-1945, 1945-1975
Highway patrol motorcycle
Highway patrol motorcycle
This motorcycle was manufactured by Kawasaki Motors Corporation's U.S. plant in Lincoln, Nebraska. The model was designed in cooperation with Kawasaki, police departments, and the automotive designer and race car driver Dan Gurney. The California Highway Patrol has used different makes of...
Region: Pacific
      
State: CA
      
Era: 1968-present
Indian motorcycle
Indian motorcycle
This motorcycle was designed in 1901 by the noted bicycle racer Oscar Hedstrom for the Springfield, Massachusetts, firm of Hendee Manufacturing Company, later (1924) known as the Indian Motorcycle Company. It is one of the 143 built in 1902, the year that the model was first offered for sale.
Region: New England
      
State: MA
      
Era: 1890-1930
Indian motorcycle
Indian motorcycle
Region: East North Central, Pacific
      
State: CA, OH
      
Era: 1929-1945, 1945-1975
Pope Model L motorcycle
Pope Model L motorcycle
This motorcycle was purchased late in 1913 by the father of Mrs. William L. Conners, John R. Beattie of New Haven, Connecticut, and was used by him for about eight years. It was then placed in storage, where it remained until it came to the Museum in 1964. Built by the Pope Manufacturing...
Region: New England, South Atlantic
      
State: CT, MA, MD
      
Era: 1890-1930
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