Motorcycles are a fun way to get around. Motorcycles can help with work on the farm or provide entertainment through stunts or speedway racing. These photographs capture motorcycles from the early 1920s onwards.
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Joan Grimes, Australian Women's Emergency Legion, learns to ride a motorcycle, to fit her for the job as a dispatch rider, if needed, 1939. |
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Three Blackall residents on a motorcycle, ca. 1930 |
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A young man is at the top of a small ladder attached to his motorcycle, ca. 1955. |
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Officials cutting the starting ribbon at a speedway motorcycle race in Brisbane, 1930. |
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Motorcyclists lined along Bourbong Street, Bundaberg, ca. 1937. |
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Man dressed in a long dustcoat, hat and goggles with a motorcycle standing in front of a painted backdrop in a studio, ca. 1935. |
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Motorcycle racing at the Mareeba Speedway, ca. 1930. |
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Motorcycle race on the beach at Bundaberg, Queensland, ca. 1947. |
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Motorbike and sidecar with rider and passenger, ca. 1922. |
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Motor Cycle stunt team, Thrills and Spills, Bundaberg, ca. 1937. |
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Motor bike racer getting a push start at the track, Brisbane, ca. 1955. |
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Members of the Brisbane Motorcycle Fishing Club, Adelaide Street, Brisbane, 1938. |
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Herb Beecher and his Waratah motor bike, ca. 1940. |
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Harley Davidson motorbikes with sidecars outside Mackenzie's Newsagency, Bulimba, Brisbane, ca. 1953 |
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Possibly a despatch rider, 1915. |
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First meeting of the Cairns Motor Cycle Club at the Woree Speedway, ca. 1930. |
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Solicitor from the Toowoomba district, wearing driving gloves and a dust jacket, on a Harley Davidson motorbike, ca 1930. |
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Don McPherson on a 350cc Harley Davidson Peashooter, Townsville, ca. 1930. |
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Cousins Eric and Henry Beck on their Indian motorcycle, Cribb Island, 1926. |
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Cec O'Mara and Ben Unwin on their motocycles at a speedway race at Davies Park in Brisbane, 1930. |
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A boy, wearing a long coat and a hat with the brim turned up, is sitting on a early model Douglas motorcycle, 1915. |
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Barbara Davies and Billy Gall on a motorcycle, ca. 1938. |
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Two women posing with a motorbike and sidecar, ca. 1922. |