KEATING  |  1901  |  USA  : Robert M. Keating was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1862 to poor Irish immigrants. He was just thirteen when his father died suddenly. A precocious boy with a knack for mechanics, he filed

  KEDGE  |  1901  |  Australia  : Kelburn Edge sold Werners badged as Kedge.  

  KELECOM  |  1902-04  |  Australia/Belgium  : Kelecom motorcycles were assembled by James Hill & Sons in Adelaide, Australia, using engines designed by Belgian engineer Paul Kelecom. These motorcycles were produced from 1902 to 1904. The early models featured 1¾

  KELLER  |  1930-32  |  Switzerland  : Karl Victor Keller was born in 1896 and died in 1961. He ran a motorcycle business at Ausstellungsstrasse in Zurich, where he sold FN and ACE motorcycles. FN, the Belgian manufacturer Fabrique Nationale

  KELLOW  |  1903-05  |  Australia  : Charles Brown Kellow was a successful cyclist who won the prestigious Austral Wheel Race in 1896, and shortly after the turn of the century raced motorcycles. The Austral Wheel Race, arranged by the

  KELLY  |  1921  |  UK  : Kelly was a motorcycle produced in 1921 by Kelly Patent Cycles of Black Lion Street, Brighton, Sussex. It arrived at a moment when the British motorcycle industry was crowded with small, short-lived ventures.

  KELSEY  |  1924  |  Australia  : M. Shelley of North Carlton, Victoria, advertised Kelsey motorcycles. No other details known.  

  KELSTON  |  1950s  |  England  : Believed to have been built in Brighton using a modified JAP motor and to have competed on the IOM. There is no documentation to confirm these facts

  KEMPISTY  |  1929-39  |  Poland  : Kempisty motorcycles were manufactured by Jan Raczynski in Warsaw from 1929 to 1939. These were 50cc auxiliary bicycle engines mounted within the triangle of a strengthened bicycle frame. In 1935 there were 0.7

  KEMPTON  |  1921-22  |  UK  : The Kempton was a product of a particular and short-lived moment in British motorcycling, when the post-war appetite for lightweight, accessible personal transport brought a wave of unconventional machines onto the market. In

  KENI  |  1921-23  |  Germany  : The Keni was one of a large number of small, short-lived motorcycle manufacturers that emerged in Germany in the early 1920s, operating from Berlin under the full company name Keni Motorenbau-Gesellschaft m.b.H., Berlin

KENILWORTH | 1919-24 | UK The man at the centre of the Kenilworth story is one of the more remarkable engineers to emerge from the early British motor industry, a figure who moved from aircraft components through car engineering and

  KENT  |  1911-14  |  Australia  : Kent motorcycles were produced by T.J. Richards and Sons in Adelaide. The Kent was entirely designed and manufactured in Australia, with even the castings done locally. The machine featured a 500cc OHV engine

  KENTISH WHEEL  |  1908  |  UK  : Kentish Wheel motorcycles were produced around 1908. The machine was a copy of the early Triumph single, featuring an SV engine, belt drive, diamond frame, and rocking front fork. As it was

  KENZLER-WAVERLEY  |  1910-14  |  United States  : The Kenzler-Waverley name represents the first chapter of one of the more intriguing stories in early American motorcycle history, a story that moved through four names and several locations before closing in

  KERR | 1968-70 | PERTH, AUSTRALIA The Kerr motorcycle was born from a partnership between two riders who met through their respective clubs in the Perth scrambles scene. Kevin Kerr rode with the Harley Club, Ray Long with the

  KERRY  |  1902-14 & 1960-67 |  UK  : The Kerry is among a small group of British motorcycle marques whose story spans more than six decades, not through continuous production but through the persistence of a commercial name that

  KERRY-ABINGDON | 1907-15 | ENGLAND : The Kerry-Abingdon name requires a small correction to the dates given in the heading. The arrangement between the East London Rubber Company and the Birmingham firm of Abingdon began around 1907, not 1909,

  KESTREL  |  1903  |  UK  : Kestrel motorcycles were produced in 1903. Few details are available, but it was a typical primitive motorcycle with either a Minerva or MMC engine fitted into a heavy-duty bicycle frame. The engine was

  KESTREL  |  1980  |  UK  : The 1980 Kestrel belongs to a brief and crowded moment in British moped history, when the redefinition of what constituted a legal moped, the availability of capable Italian rolling chassis and engines, and

  KETTERINA  |  1901-07  |  UK  : The Ketterina occupies a genuinely unusual place in the history of British motorcycling, not for what it was technically, but for what it became. Behind a modestly named provincial motor bicycle lies the

  KEW FLYER  |  1912-16  |  Australia  : The Kew Flyer is one of those Australian marque names that sits as much in local social history as in the history of motorcycle manufacture, and its story begins not with an