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Posted by hipstomp | 13 Aug 2010
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Henderson is a defunct brand of U.S.-made motorcycle that went bust around the time of the Great Depression. In 1936 designer O. Ray Courtney took a 1930 Henderson and modified it into the streamlined style you see here:
[photo credit: knucklebusterinc.com]
Little is known about Courtney, though his name does pop up again in a 1953 Popular Science article, along with photos of another motorcycle he modded in 1950--with a style evolving along with the times:
The 1936 bike is now owned (and was restored) by one Frank Westfall of Syracuse, New York. The 1950 bike, sadly, is MIA.
via knucklebuster and finkbuilt
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its very innovative...
Apparently Westfall owns both of them, but the second bike has not been restored yet. I have seen a picture of him riding it in a partially disassembled state. Still runs!
Ray Courtney was my grandfather; I remember seeing the bikes pictured above (from the Popular Science article) in his machine shop near Pontiac MI, when I was a child in the late 1960s. He worked for General Motors/Oldsmobile for many years and upon his death in 1984, we found old sketches of other ideas he had--including one for what would have been a jetski, had he followed through on it. Wonderful man and dearly missed.
Hey Courtney -
Thanks so much for the note! Drop us a line at blogs [at] core77.com -- maybe we can work together about publishing some of his sketches as a public archive of some of his other work.
thanks!