1927 A Great Year For Indian Motorcycle
In’27 when Indian Motorcycle started manufacturing they had three major products which included the Indian Scout, the Indian Chief and the Indian Ace. Later they got hold of the assets of Ace Motorcycle Company which got stamped as Indian Four.
There was a lot happening in America in’27 with the first all talking movie was produced called The Jazz Singer, with Al Jolson. This year also saw Charles Lindberg flying across Atlantic to reach Paris achieving success for the first time while Babe Ruth in the 8th innings of a game between New York and Washington strike his 60th home run. A man called Louis Gehrig was in the line-up after Ruth for the beating.
Though farmers were having a tough year – tough enough that many of them sold out and became tenant farmers, America was at the peak of the Jazz Age in’27. The Indian Motorcycle Company was having a fine year as well.
The indication that Indian Motorcycle was doing well came from the fact that the sale of the Scout and the Chief went up. Moreover the Ace Company bike, the rights of which were acquired by Indian Motorcycle, produced a four cylinder machine which was named “Ace Indian”. After a year the name was changed to Indian Four which was a huge and comfortable bike.
Indian Ace that afterwards became Indian Four bike had 77 cubic inch (1,256 cc) four cylinder machine by’44. The bike got tank-shifting three speed transmission and Indian fender was olaced around it. However after some production in’42 they stopped making this bike when World War II began.
In’27, though, America and the Indian Motorcycle Company were cruising along. Police departments were buying so many Indian Scouts and Chiefs that a production facility was made just to supply law enforcement. Indian Motorcycle Company was working in’27 on a version of the Scout with a new lower frame.
But they probably didn’t know just how important the 101 Scout from the year’28 would be. And in’27 they could barely know that 40 years into the future an Indian motorcycle would set an Under-1000 cc speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in northwest Utah.
A’27 Indian Motorcycle is a rare find today. The few specimens that have been tenderly restored to the beautiful machines they started out as can sell for as much as $30,000. Clearly,’27 was a great year for the Indian Motorcycle Company.
The 1927 model Indian motorcycle is an all time classic. If you would like to know more about another classic; the1947 Indian motorcycle click on the link.
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