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1916 Watsonian Sidecar Sales Catalogue

Sales Catalogues / McSnotty

This is the second Watsonian catalogue that we have listed, the other one being for Watsonian 1926. With their motto being For Pleasure, Speed, & Commerce The Watsonian Folding Sidecar Co, of Birmingham were set to deliver. Sidecars were still a new concept in 1916 but manufacturers were going all out to provide a full […]

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1938 James Sales Catalogue.

Sales Catalogues, Stinkwheel / McSnotty

By 1938 James Motorcycles were producing only 5 models, all powered by the popular Villiers 2 stroke engine and using Albion gearboxes. This small 8 page catalogue was printed for the main New Zealand importer Skeates & White of Auckland, but in the back of it Skeates have listed 56 James Representatives throughout NZ that

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1926 Scott Illustrated Parts Catalogue

Manuals / McSnotty

A comprehensive and well illustrated parts book for Scott motorcycles from 1922 to 1926. Complete with part numbers but unfortunately no descriptions or prices. But as clever vintage motorcyclists we can identify what we want without a bunch of words doing it for us. And as they say ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’.

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1957 Lightweight Autocycles Manual.

Manuals, Stinkwheel / McSnotty

With the current situation of overseas hostilities effecting the price of fuel in New Zealand even small cars are becoming very expensive to fill up their tanks, prices of more than $100 are appearing to be the norm. So it makes one wonder if there will be an increase in small 2 wheeled scooters appearing

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1934 Fisher Piston Catalogue.

Maintenance, Sales Catalogues / McSnotty

This is the third piston catalogue that we have put up on Barnstormers, the other two being a 1938 BRICOVMO and a 1963 Hepolite. We still have a 1948 Hepolite catalogue to scan and format sometime in the future. This catalogue is quite unique in that Fisher were a New Zealand manufacturer from Wellington. We

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