Paul Bigsby and Crocker Motorcycles Connection

[Jon Zimmerman]

A Crocker m/c mechanic’s wet dream…come true! (Pre flip open ash tray?)

[Moderator note: these posts were split from this For Sale thread about a Bigsby T8 pedal steel here - viewtopic.php?t=379515 - please keep this extended discussion here, and not on the For Sale thread.]

[Chris Lucker]

Interesting? Jon. You are saying Paul Bigsby was a Crocker Mechanic? How do you elevate his providing sub’ed out casting services to being Crocker Mechsnic.
Please share your primary sources.

[Jon Zimmerman]

Hello Chris: real simple: Google Paul Bigsby American inventor.

[Donny Hinson]

https://www.bigsby.com/about/history/

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[Chris Lucker]

Sorry, I read the four articles, but they don’t explain what about the Crocker motorcycle is attributed to Paul Bigsby. Please detail it for me. You don’t need to include tfe volume/tone pedal casting — we all know that already.

[chas smith R.I.P.]

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[chas smith R.I.P.]

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Bigsby on his Crocker. He was in charge of all the castings.

[Chris Lucker]

So, Chas, you are saying he invented the motorcycle?
Bigbsy eventually became the shop foreman at Crocker and was a pattern maker.
Al Crocker was the designer.
I imagine you also think that when Bigsby worked as a pattern maker for the WWII war effort, he invented the Navy's battleships as well?

[Chris Lucker]

Why don't you have a photo of the Bigsby motorcycle? There were two. One sold not too many years ago. They were never completed until after PA died. Perhaps because they utilized someone else's design?

[Jon Zimmerman]

Lotsa mechanical inventions/refinements were taking place locally in 20’s-30’s. Indy car OHC engine/chassis creators were clustered around in the same areas of LA where you live now, Chris. BTW, is that your car parked in the background of that pic?
(FPS- for pity sakes)

[Jon Zimmerman]

Bob & Dave: you can slam dunk any of my comments made as non essential to this sale. Only want seller/purchaser to realize what a pristine example of early PSG design is up for grabs… by any Oligarch!