Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company
As we all may or do know, there are a variety cars and motorcycles available to the American consumers to purchase, however, when it comes to touring motorcycles, the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company, (H-D.M.C.), has been the forerunner among all of the motorcycle companies, thereby, achieving the status of Cadillac of Motorcycles.
In 1901, William “Bill” Harley was twenty one when he designed, in a small shed in his back yard, a blueprint of a small engine that he could install to his bicycle, (Harley Davidson Motorcycle Museum). A few years later, in 1903, Arthur Davidson and, soon thereafter, his brother Walter, had joined Bill Harley as partners and thereby is the official birth year of the H-D.M.C, (H-D). By 1909 they introduced their first big V-twin motorcycle and in 1912 had patented their H-D logo as their trade mark. That same year they had the their first factory built and as of today is the main headquarters for the H-D, (Autoevolution).
In August of 1919, Ted Gilbert, of Portland, Oregon, performed a daring feat when he rode an H-D Sport Twin to the top of Larch mountain in Oregon through multiple obstacles, such as heavily wooded areas with large, small and …show more content…
This scooter became a desired choice of racing motorcycle and Brad Andres had won the 1960 Daytona 200 with it. Towards the end of the 1960’s, as H-D “stock is publicly traded,” (Gardiner), a company named “American Machine Foundry Company, (AMF),” (Gardiner), owned by Willie G. Davidson, Walter Davidson’s grandson, had sold all of his stocks do to the importation of Japanese and British motorcycles that had a higher quality built motor than that of the struggling H-D AMF company,
As we all may or do know, there are a variety cars and motorcycles available to the American consumers to purchase, however, when it comes to touring motorcycles, the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company, (H-D.M.C.), has been the forerunner among all of the motorcycle companies, thereby, achieving the status of Cadillac of Motorcycles.
In 1901, William “Bill” Harley was twenty one when he designed, in a small shed in his back yard, a blueprint of a small engine that he could install to his bicycle, (Harley Davidson Motorcycle Museum). A few years later, in 1903, Arthur Davidson and, soon thereafter, his brother Walter, had joined Bill Harley as partners and thereby is the official birth year of the H-D.M.C, (H-D). By 1909 they introduced their first big V-twin motorcycle and in 1912 had patented their H-D logo as their trade mark. That same year they had the their first factory built and as of today is the main headquarters for the H-D, (Autoevolution).
In August of 1919, Ted Gilbert, of Portland, Oregon, performed a daring feat when he rode an H-D Sport Twin to the top of Larch mountain in Oregon through multiple obstacles, such as heavily wooded areas with large, small and …show more content…
This scooter became a desired choice of racing motorcycle and Brad Andres had won the 1960 Daytona 200 with it. Towards the end of the 1960’s, as H-D “stock is publicly traded,” (Gardiner), a company named “American Machine Foundry Company, (AMF),” (Gardiner), owned by Willie G. Davidson, Walter Davidson’s grandson, had sold all of his stocks do to the importation of Japanese and British motorcycles that had a higher quality built motor than that of the struggling H-D AMF company,