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2005/4/1-2 Collector card, featuring Harold Parsons, cardboard, Allen's, Australia, 1927-1930

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Collector card, featuring Harold Parsons, cardboard, Allen's, Australia, 1927-1930
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Harold (Ranji) Parsons was a Victorian motorcycle rider who accomplished much in a brief career as a motorcycle rider before his untimely death in 1921. He was only one of two riders in very wet conditions to finish the Marysville Trial held on the 24 September 1916, coming second on a Harley-Davidson. He then secured the 10 mile, 25 mile, 50 mile, 200 miles and 3 hour records at Mortlake on 3rd January 1917. On 19th October Parsons won the Hillclimb at Buttlejork on another Indian, (8-valve), as well the sideclass class. At the 1919 Easter Carnival at Mortlake Parsons was the "scratchman". He burned his led badly on the open ported 8-valve Indian motorcycle event though he had a sheet of asbestos wrapped around his limb for protection and spent a few days in the Mortlake Hospital.

By 1920 Parsons was a professional rider employed by the Rhodes Motorcycle Co. and he broke the Adelaide to Melbourne record on an Indian and sidecar with a time of 19 hours and 20 minutes over roads which were little more than tracks through the desert. Parsons went on to break the World 24 hour road record on 26 August 1920, on a 596 cc Indian "Scout" at the Sale circuit.

Tragically Harold Parson was killed on 16 May 1921 when he hit a stray horse testing a new Indian "Daytona" motorcycle on Epping Road. He was regarded as the world's most versatile rider and a memorial drinking fountain was later erected on 24 June 1923 to his memory on the corner of Punt Road and Swan Street, Richmond in Victoria.

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Description
Collector card, featuring Harold Parsons, cardboard, Allen's, Australia, 1927-1930

Portrait-format collectors card No. 2 featuring blue-tinted image of motorcyclist Harold Parsons. The text on the reverse side of the card reads 'Late HAROLD PARSONS, on Indian Scout, rode 1114½ miles in 24 hours on the road, establishing 25 world's (sic) records for all times- 6 to 24 hours and from 300 to 1100 miles; also winner of many track championships in all the Australian States. ALLEN'S Irish Moss Gums Contain Licorice, Tolu, Horehound, and Irish Moss. COPYRIGHT'.
Made: 1927 - 1930
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
2005/4/1-2
Production date
1927 - 1930
Height
65 mm
Width
38 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Gift of Mr P. Cooney, 2004

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.
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