Indian motorcycle : America's first motorcycle company / Darwin Holmstrom.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Motorbooks, 2016Description: 224 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780760348635 (hardback)
- 0760348634 (hardback)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Oversize | 338.7629 H753 | Available | 33111008575439 |
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Indian Motorcycle(R): America's First Motorcycle Company(tm) tells the complete story of Indian, America's first mass-produced motorcycle maker, from its start as a bicycle manufacturer to the purchase of the brand by Polaris Industries in 2011 and the subsequent new Indian motorcycles. In the early years of the 20th century, Indian dominated the world's racetracks, earning the brand a worldwide reputation for quality, performance, reliability, and technical innovation, but the once-mighty company fell on hard times and in 1953 was forced to file bankruptcy.
The Indian brand never quite died, though, thanks in large part to fanatically devoted enthusiasts, who tried to resurrect it for over half a century. Finally Polaris, maker of the highly regarded Victory(R) brand of motorcycles, purchased the brand and released the Chief(R) and Scout(R), models that once again restored Indian to its rightful place in the motorcycle pantheon.
"The complete story of Indian, America's first mass-produced motorcycle maker"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes index.
Birth of an Icon -- Beginning of the End -- Great Motorcycles and Hard Times -- Death of an Icon -- Resurrection -- Twenty-First Century Indians: the Chief and the Scout.