1949 - The Stop Of The Indian Together Alongside Vincent Motorcycle Companies... Entirely I Didn't Know Until Reading This, That Indian Killed Vincent Like A Drowning Human Beingness Pulls A Lifeguard Under.

The twelvemonth 1949, the Indian Motocycle Company, beleaguered on several fronts, was circling the drain mostly (entirely) due to finances. The president of Indian was envisioning the time to come of motorcycling, as good as realized it belonged to lightweights, like the Japanese manufacturers would confirm inward a few small years. Getting lightweight Indians into the marketplace would give Indian an reward over the British bikes (due to import fees) His Torque serial motorcycles were one-half dozen months delayed leading to a loss of income, plus the manufacturing costs were double the estimated costs, as good as the deathstroke was the British currency getting devalued Indian invited the Vincent Company to choose handgrip of as good as the two fellowship presidents devised a concept to arrive at a blend of the Indian Chief as good as the Vincent motorcycles. The compromise would bespeak maintain helped Indian amongst a modernization of the venerable Indian Chief amongst...