Cogsley Farnesworth is a motorcycle built in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia during the late 1930s in a similar design to the American Harley Davidson, but with many features that were ahead of their time.
Swinging arm rear suspension was used, many years before other manufacturers started using it. Front forks were an unusual combination of external and internal springs. The motor was a 45 degree V twin fitted with overhead valves and a footshifted 3 speed unit construction gearbox was used. Performance was outstanding and several riders raced these machines successfully into the mid 1940s. No known examples of the Cogsley Farnesworth have survived, aside from one new machine rumoured to be still in its crate somewhere in Victoria, Australia. This is probably just an urban myth, similar to the one regarding stockpiles of ex military motorcycles in locations all over the Pacific.
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