Other Bikes » Early motorcycle manufacturing movie

Here are a couple of short videos of a silent movie that are well worth watching. The show Rudge motorcycles being built sometime during the 1920's. Not a lot of safety equipment, like gloves or overalls, were worn by workers back then. It looked like it might have been kind of noisy in that factory, too. No wonder it is a silent movie. lol The Rudge motorcycle seemed to have some modern features, even if their design would receive some polishing in the future, like mechanically-linked brakes and a 4-valve head with two spark plugs. The end of part 2 shows some interesting commercial uses for motorcycles back then: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l0aMsMC6GE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa-Z79gBvgs

"Ruthlessly tested" Love that.

Frank