Des Moines Motorcycle Co: Putting Iowans On Two Wheels

(Des Moines Tribune. December 9, 1914)

There’s not much information out there on the Des Moines Motorcycle Co. It was a short-lived business operated by O. Gudenachwager, that probably got its start in 1913 or 1914, and was gone by 1916.

Advertisements featured Indian and Henderson motorcycles, ranging in price from $200 to $325.

Here's another early advertisement featuring Indian Motorcycles.

(Des Moines Tribune. July 3, 1914)

Here's another advertisement that featured Indian and Henderson Motorcycles, ranging in price from $200 to $325. That was roughly half of a factory workers' salary in 1914.

(Des Moines Tribune. March 6, 1914)