Gary Mc
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
Starting to dig into the history of George M. Hendee starting with Hendee & Nelson Mfg. Co. and moving through to Hendee Mfg. Co. and the Indian Motocycle Co. This thread will run with data from the 1890's through the 1950's but as most of the research will be pre-1933, I felt it best to post it here. I will also add "Notes & Reference" placeholders in separate posts up front for each era. Obviously with bicycles & motorcycles were so closely linked in the early 1900's, there will also be references to their very early motorcycles I find that may be appropriate here as well.
I encourage anyone with additional information on these great bicycles to post it here as well. There is a lot of mystery & intrigue to this company and always the questions of who actually manufactured Indian motobikes. Post your bikes, ads, catalogs, articles whatever you feel appropriate here to the subject matter at hand and maybe in the end we'll all have the answers we seek on these great marques of bicycling history.
NOTE: This will be a long term project for me so I'll post what I can when I can get to it. Work & Family Life crazy right now but plan to work on this little project as time allows.
George M. Hendee (1866 – 1943)
Oscar Hedstrom (1871-1960)
I encourage anyone with additional information on these great bicycles to post it here as well. There is a lot of mystery & intrigue to this company and always the questions of who actually manufactured Indian motobikes. Post your bikes, ads, catalogs, articles whatever you feel appropriate here to the subject matter at hand and maybe in the end we'll all have the answers we seek on these great marques of bicycling history.
NOTE: This will be a long term project for me so I'll post what I can when I can get to it. Work & Family Life crazy right now but plan to work on this little project as time allows.
George M. Hendee (1866 – 1943)
- Photos: 1883, Post 52; Posts 15, 53
- Articles:Posts 13, 15, 55
Oscar Hedstrom (1871-1960)
- Photos: Posts 15, 59
- Articles: Posts 15, 28, 55
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