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261 Madison Avenue, formerly the AMF Building 1975 AMF Harley-Davidson 250 1975 AMF Harley-Davidson 350. In 1949, American Machine and Foundry developed a pretzel bender, an automatic baked pretzel-twisting machine that rolled and tied them at the rate of 50 a minute, more than twice as fast as skilled hand twisters.
AMF's ownership of Harley-Davidson was problematic, and by some accounts, the company was close to bankruptcy in the early 1980s. [1] Along with 12 others Harley-Davidson executives, Bleustein helped lead an $81.5 million leveraged buyout of the company in 1981. [1] [2] [8]
Harley-Davidson, Inc. (H-D, or simply Harley) is an American motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Founded in 1903, it is one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression along with its historical rival, Indian Motorcycles. [3]
S&S Cycle is an American motorcycle engine and parts engineer and manufacturer. The company was founded in 1958 by George J. Smith and Stanley Stankos in Blue Island, Illinois. [1] The company started by selling high performance pushrods for Harley-Davidson motorcycles, [2] and today they still make parts for a variety of V-Twin bikes. The ...
Harley-Davidson on Monday responded to the bad publicity it’s received over diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that had become the target of conservative activists.
G.I. Joe's began in 1952 when Edward Orkney purchased army surplus sleeping bags and then set up a tent in Portland, Oregon, to sell them to the public. [3] Orkney sold out of the sleeping bags and then started selling other army surplus merchandise in a store that then doubled in size by 1956, [3] making it Portland's largest retailer of sporting goods and outdoor gear.
Erik F. Buell (born April 2, 1950, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the founder, former chairman and chief operations officer of the Buell Motorcycle Company, which eventually merged with Harley-Davidson Corp. Buell is a pioneer of modern race motorcycle technology.
Harley-Davidson Shovelhead engine at the Harley-Davidson Museum. The Shovelhead engine is a motorcycle engine that was produced by Harley-Davidson from 1966 to 1984, built as a successor to the previous Panhead engine. When the engine was first produced, the Shovelhead had a shallower combustion chamber, larger valve drop for both intake and ...