Interesting. Well, if you count that, then you have to count Harley-Davidons's bankruptcy in 1969. What happend to Indian in 1948 was they lost the WWII motorcycle contract and they couldn't make motorcycles in volume anymore (their plants turned to the war efforts), if Harley-Davidson lost the WWII contract the same would have been done. After the war, H-D had so much extra money and R&D there was no stopping them really.jstark47 wrote:The Indian that was older than Harley Davidson went out of business in 1953.totalmotorcycle wrote:Indian is older than Harley-Davidson (thus, H-D would be the CLONE of Indian, not the other way around).
By "oldest" it's the brand name, not the bike, if it was the bike, then I think we would all have to agree the "oldest" would be Royal Enfiend who have been making motorcycles, mostly unchanged, since the 40's.
Mike