With their purchase of Ace Motorcycles in 1927 Indian Motocycle acquired the William Henderson designed Ace in-line F head four cylinder motorcycle engine and Indian were not slow to put their own name on it and…
1905 Fabrique Nationale Four-Cylinder
John Moses Browning is America’s most famous firearms designer and visionary, most of his designs are still in use, even the 1887 lever action shotgun that is said to have been his least favorite creation yet…
Harley-Davidson XLCR
The Harley-Davidson XLCR was Harley-Davidson’s first and only attempt at a café racer style of motorcycle. It was a café racer done in the Harley-Davidson style and as such certainly doesn’t fit with the smaller engined…
1913 Harley Davidson V Twin Barn Find
If you ask someone to name one American motorcycle it is almost inevitable they will know the name Harley-Davidson above all others. Not only because Harley-Davidson have been around since 1903, but because they’ve been a…
Norton ES2 1948
The Norton ES2 motorcycle was in production from 1927 until 1964. For it to have been in production for so long tells us that Norton had got it right with this bike and it developed a…
Triumph-Werke Nürnberg B200 1936
Nurenberg resident Siegfried Bettmann came to Britain and in 1886 founded the Triumph Bicycle factory in Coventry, England. He continued making bicycles there and then in 1896 went back to his home town of Nurenberg and…