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#1 Welcome, and thank you for coming out to hear this presentation. Today, I’m going to try to give a brief overview of the history and development of the Indian Motocycle Company, which built motorcycles in this city for 52 years, ending in 1953. I think I should warn you that this talk is full of my own biases regarding the management of the company. If I find fault with some of the marketing and financial decisions the company made, I know you’ll realize that I’m just the Monday morning quarterback and other interpretations of the facts may be just as correct as mine. What nobody can dispute, however, is that these people made some very beautiful and mechanically sophisticated machines for more than half a century and that their legacy lives on even now—more than 100 years since production started.

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  1. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. HOME OF INDIAN MOTOCYCLES CHESTERFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY WILL BOUTELLE SEPT. 20, 2007
  2. References
    • A Century of Indian by Ed Youngblood 2001
    • Indian Motorcycle Photo History by Jerry Hatfield 1993
    • Golden Age of the Fours by Ted Hodgdon 1974
    • Classic Indian Motorcycle by John Carroll (no date)
    • Hendersons, Those Elegant Machines by Richard Schultz 1994
    • Springfield, Mass was a manufacturing hub from mid-19th century
    • Large pool of skilled labor, plentiful power, available capital
    • At least three cars (Duryea, Knox and Rolls Royce), bicycles and motorcycles
    • 1893 Duryea, Springfield Mass
  3. DURYEA
    • Brothers Charles & Frank built first car
    • Second car, won 1st auto race in USA (50 miles roundtrip Chicago-Evanston)
    • First production run (13 units)
    • 1896 First auto accident (NYC, Henry Wells hit bicyclist in his Duryea, went to jail overnight)
    • Mfg at least until 1913 in IL, NJ, and PA
  4. Late-Model Duryea
  5. Knox Automobile 1900-1914
  6. KNOX AUTOMOBILE
    • BUILT CARS, TRUCKS, TRACTORS AND FIRE ENGINES
    • USING KNOX ENGINES, SPRINGFIELD BECAME FIRST MECHANIZED FIRE DEPT. IN USA
  7. Springfield Rolls Royce
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    • INDIAN PRODUCTION FIGURES
    • 1901 3
    • 143
    • 376
    • ?
    • 1905 1000+
    • 3000+
    • 6000+
    • 32000+
    • 25000
    • 21000
  13. Indian #268 (early 1903). With engine and gas tank, it’s a bicycle!
  14. From 1906 Indian catalogue, showing various products: Tandem, triplet, tri-car, tricycle and van
  15. 1907--First cataloged twin cylinder Indian 42 degree angle between front and rear cyl. ALL Indian twins through the end retained this angle
  16. 1909 Loop Frame No longer a bicycle with a motor
  17. Steering head of 1909 Indian single. Note U-joint controls for gas and spark.
  18. Indian always concentrated on police business. Here is a 1910 two-man patrol twin in
  19. Cincinatti. NYPD placed their first order in 1903.
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  21. Indian Factories
  22. 1911 Isle of Man TT Race (Britain)
    • Indian came in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place
  23. Board track racing Los Angeles, 1912 1/3 mile tack, 90 mph
  24. Eddie Hasha with “big base” 8-valve twin, Sept. 1912, on steeply banked board track, just
  25. before an accident killed him, another racer and six spectators in Newark, NJ
  26. This was the only time that Motorcycle racing ever made the front page of the NY Times
  27. 1912 Indian with “Colonial sidecar” made of wicker
  28. 1914 Indian with Indian sidecar
  29. 1913 Indian twin with spring frame Major Innovation, but nobody else followed Note early “buddy seat” hanging off the back
  30. Ford Model T Hauled five people Kept you dry with top up Got cheaper to buy every year Killed market for motorcycle as cheap transportation
  31. Oscar Hedstrom, Indian’s engineering father, retires at age 42 in 1913
  32. Oscar Hedstrom, about the time of his retirement
  33. Hendee special. Electric Starting, but no generator.
  34. Pancho Villa. It’s hard to understand why needed electric starting, with no place to charge his batteries for miles around. Two years later, he was being chased by General John J. Pershing
  35. George Hendee Leaves Indian in 1915. Now both the founders are gone.
  36. 1915 gun car, marketed to British army
  37. 1919 spring-frame military Indian. Note gas lamp and brass levers.
  38. 1917 Model O First Indian Attempt at a lightweight twin Cylinders opposed, front and aft Harley riders called it the “Model Zero” due to its low power
  39. Erwin “Cannonball” Baker. Not to o bright, but he could stay awake for days
    • May, 1914 San Diego/New York
    • 11 days, 12 hrs, 10 min
    • Aug., 1915 Canada/Mexico
    • 3 days, 9 hrs, 15 min
    • 24-hr. record: 1534.25 miles
    • All on Indians
  40. Publicity photo of Baker on Indian
  41. Great Motorcycles, bad business
  42. 1921 Scout Starting to look like modern motorcycle
  43. Scout primary drive--helical gears in oil bath. Led to the chant: “You can’t wear out an Indian Scout”
  44. 1923 Chief. First 74 cubic inch motor
  45. 1922 Chief with sidecar
  46. Orie Steele Pre-eminent hillclimber with trophies, on 1924 Scout
  47. 1925 Indian Prince 2nd attempt at lightweight motorcycle
  48. 1926 souped up overhead valve Prince (Still didn’t sell)
  49. Typical small-town Indian agency of 1920’s
    • Dealer and wife in front of showroom
  50. Lineage of the future Indian Four Motocycle
    • Will Henderson, designer of:
    • Henderson, 1912-1917 and
    • Ace 1922-1926
    • Indian bought out Ace after bankruptcy
  51. 1912 Henderson First year of mfg. First motorcycle to drive around the world (driven by C.S. Clancy)
  52. Mr. & Mrs. Will Henderson on 1912 Henderson Motorcycle
  53. 1917 Henderson Company sold to Schwinn Dec, 1917 Will and Tom Henderson kept on as consultants, but Will soon left to start Ace Motorcycle Company
  54. Ace
    • Designed by W. Henderson
    • Sept. 1922: Cannonball Baker rode Ace LA-NY (3332 miles) in 6 days, 22 hours and 52 minutes
    • “ World’s Fastest Motorcycle” 129 mph solo, 106 mph with sidecar
    • Will Henderson Killed Dec. 1922, while testing the new Ace on city streets
  55. 1927 Indian Ace
  56. Indian Car
    • Indian Car
  57. Silver Arrow Outboard Motor
  58. Non-motorcycle Products fail
  59. 1930-1939 duPont to the Rescue
  60. Dupont Letter, 1930
  61. 1930 Hillclimber
  62. 1932 Scout Pony
  63. 1936 Chief (restored 2005)
    • 1936 Chief
    • View from saddle
  64. 1938 Four Cyl. (restored 1999)
  65. 1938 Four Cylinder
    • 1939
    • Traffic
    • car
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