Indian Motorcycle Company

At the beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a Springfield, Massachusetts, the birth of a legend in the form of 'Motorcycle Manufacturing Co., the Indian'; models of the most famous is the 'Scout' and 'head', the latter being in production for an incredible thirty-one years.

The founders of the company, which was originally known as the 'Hendee Manufacturing Company, George M.. Hendee and Carl Oscar Hedstrom, and a pair of former bicycle racers who joined forces to produce motorcycles 1 ¾ horsepower. Sales started slowly, but soon give the company increased a solid ground for building. This was cycling in the early belt-driven and 1903 are performing well enough to allow for the establishment of Hedstrom new motorcycle speed record of 56mph.

Supplier of Aurora, Illinois engine that will power 'diamond framed one', which carried the rich red that would become synonymous with Indian. And sales made in 1902, to 32,000 in 1913. 1907 saw the introduction of dual-V, which, along with Baker Canonball 'Irwin will set many records over long distances and culminated with a trip from San Diego to New York in a record time of 11 days, 12 hours and ten minutes. As is the case today, and competition inspired by technical innovation and India has gone from strength to strength, winning the Isle of Man race Trinidad and Tobago in 1911. Not only that, but the Indians in the second and third place also.

It seems that the Indian President and Scout in early 1920, and went on to become the flagships of the company. By that time, each and Hendee Hedstrom left the company. He won all of the bikes admiration of the public, not just for looks, but also for the durability of them, hence the saying, 'You can not wear and Indian Scout, or brother, the Indian president. They are built like rocks to take hard knocks, but it is a Harley that cause grief.

By 1930 has teamed up with Indian 'Dupont Motors, who finished the production of cars Dupont to put every ounce of energy and resources in the development of the Indian Ocean. And relations with industry, a significant increase in paint color selection, with 24 on offer by 1934. This is the time when special dress Indian head logo first saw the light of day on the tanks of the machines, and it was not long before the Indian factory became known as the 'tent'.

By 1940, India has almost rivaled its main competitor Harley Davidson in sales. The company also produces Bicycle engineless, air conditioning, aircraft engine along with many other lines. This year also saw the introduction of the fenders that have been avoided to determine the Indians for years to come. The latest innovations that have reached at this time spread out the framework within which to make the device much better than the Harley of the day. In its basic form, can be up to the President of 86mph, but with the settings a little over 100mph was possible.
The Ralph B. Rogers, leader of the Union, which bought a controlling interest in India in 1945, and on November 1, Dupont officially handed over control of Rogers. Unfortunately Rogers Scouting stop focusing on models such as the arrow 149, Warrior 250 and Superscout 249. These bikes suffered from poor quality and lack of development, land, and was approximately 1949 to stop production. In 1953, the manufacturer of all models of India and stopped and started to import the 'Royal Enfield' from England. The point of these models and sell them as Indians during the remaining period of the contract. Later, and became the name of Indian property company that imported the 'unprecedented' bikes, however, did not use the name of Indian.
In 1960, began one of the Floyd Clymer use the name of the Indian bikes imported from Italy, apparently without buying a known brand from the owner last year. When his widow sold Clymer died in 1970, a sign of the Attorney-Los Angeles, Alan Newman, who continued to import the Italian machines, bicycles and later from Taiwan, but by 1975 the company was in trouble in 1977 and declared bankruptcy. The ensuing legal battle for the rights of the brand name, and finally in 1988 the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Denver has paved the way for the 'Gilroy' to resume production of the Indians. These bikes became known as the 'Indian Gilroy. In 2006, the company took a London-based monitoring and the establishment of a new plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Plans are being developed for the production of a new president, something we all look forward to.
Perhaps will the glory days of the Indian to return, but we can not leave without mentioning Burt Munro from New Zealand, and the World Health Organization in 1960, with the aid of Scouting 1920 in India, the establishment of numerous speed records of earth as seen in the 'film 2005 and the Indian world's fastest .