Reading Standards is best known as the first American motorcycle company to offer a flathead engine.
For many British car and motorcycle companies of the era, government intervention was the guarantee of a lingering death.
Some scenes were shot at the German motorcycle company, Zündapp.
Its approximately 450 members were organized into motorcycle companies.
Janeček saw an opportunity in 1927 to turn a former armament factory into a motorcycle manufacturing company.
Cooper was a motorcycle company that built off-road motorcycles in Mexico.
These small manufacturers were unable to compete when larger motorcycle companies like Honda entered the market in the early 1970s.
He also worked for motorcycle companies, offering publicity by making cross-country rides.
The trio envisioned creating a motorcycle company after the war.
As was the case with most early Australian motorcycle companies, their machines were manufactured primarily from British parts.