Who owns Harley- Davidson?
American motorcycle manufacturer, Harley-Davidson is noted for a style of customization that gave rise to the chopper motorcycle style. The company traditionally marketed heavyweight, air-cooled cruiser motorcycles with engine displacements greater than 700 ccs, but it has broadened its offerings to include more contemporary VRSC (2002) and middle-weight Street (2015) platforms. Who owns Harley- Davidson?…
American motorcycle manufacturer, Harley-Davidson is noted for a style of customization that gave rise to the chopper motorcycle style. The company traditionally marketed heavyweight, air-cooled cruiser motorcycles with engine displacements greater than 700 ccs, but it has broadened its offerings to include more contemporary VRSC (2002) and middle-weight Street (2015) platforms.
Who owns Harley- Davidson?
Founded by, William S. Harley, Walter Davidson, William A. Davidson, and Arthur Davidson. Harley-Davidson has no one owner anymore. It’s a publicly traded company with stockholders and a board of directors and has been since Wills G. Davidson stepped down in 2012.
But every company has a History, In 1901, 20-year-old, William S. Harley drew up plans for a small engine with a displacement of 7.07 cubic inches (116 ccs) and four-inch (102 mm) flywheels designed for use in a regular pedal-bicycle frame.
Over the next two years, he and his childhood friend Arthur Davidson worked on their motor-bicycle using the northside Milwaukee machine shop at the home of their friend Henry Melk. It was finished in 1903 with the help of Arthur’s brother Walter Davidson.
