The Yale motorcycle was built by the Consolidated Manufacturing Company based in Toledo, Ohio, after they had acquired the rights to the California motorcycle. The California is famous as the first internal combustion vehicle to cross the American continent in 1903. The first Yale was the Yale/California built in 1906 and the first actual Yale motorcycle, a 3 1/2 hp, single cylinder model was announced in 1909. This board track bike was built in 1914 and the Yale Motorcycle Company closed the year after.