He could not have called it a Chief but may have said Ace.After Bill Henderson was killed on a test track Ignatz Schwinn sold the company Ace Henderson to Indian the Ace name was used on the Indian fours for about two years then dropped.Henderson was like a son to Schwinn and after his death Schwinn only wanted to produce bicycles and thought motorcycles to be too dangerous.Once Harley came out with the OHV 36 El,FL [knicknamed knucklehead] it was the beginning of the end for Indian which met its basic demise in 1953 after that there was British Enfield Indians for a few more years but sales lagged and dealers went under.All Indians for the street were flatheads and 3 speed trans.Early years they had some super fast race bikes designed by an Irish born engineer named Franklin some of which were overhead valves but unfortunatly the factory did not transfer this technology to the street.After the era of Franklin they were owned by Dupont which had managment that did not ride motorcycles.In the early years the blue painted Indians were made at the Toronto factory.I learned all this at the AMA museum Indian display and hope Im remebering it correctly.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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