Norton Harding van Sicklen, Sr. (1864 – 1932) was a bicycle and automobile publisher and entrepreneur and racing cyclist.
[1][2] Norton H. Van Sicklen had a long and varied career in both the bicycle and automobile industry of the United States.
He continued publication of Motor Age until the disturbed period following the financial panic of 1907 and, in January 1908 sold it to Horace M. Swetland of the Class Journal Company.
[1] Van Sicklen was instrumental in the organization of the Chicago Motor Club and the American Automobile Association, and was president of both bodies.
In 1913, he began the manufacture of the Van Sicklen speedometer in Elgin, Illinois, a business that he developed into an important enterprise before it was taken over by John N. Willys in fall 1919.