Indian Prince

The Indian Prince is a motorcycle manufactured by the Hendee Manufacturing Company from 1925 to 1928. An entry-level single-cylinder motorcycle, the Prince was restyled after its first year and discontinied after four years.

The frame and forks of the Prince were revived in 1933 and used with V-twin engines to form the Motoplane and the Pony Scout.

Design and production

1927 flat-track racer based on an Indian Prince

The Prince was designed by Charles B. Franklin and began production in 1925.[1] It was a single-cylinder motorcycle for beginners[2] and for export.[3] The 1925 Prince had its gearbox attached to the engine and had a wedge-shaped fuel tank. The Prince was redesigned for 1926 with a separate gearbox and a fuel tank similar in shape to that of the contemporary Scout. Both versions used coil-sprung girder forks instead of the leaf-sprung trailing link forks used on the contemporary Chief and Scout. A front brake was added in 1928, the last year of production.[1]

Legacy

Harley-Davidson began production of their single-cylinder motorcycle for 1926 and continued them until 1934.[4]

In 1933, the Prince frame and forks were revived for use in the Motoplane and Pony Scout V-twin motorcycles.[5][6] The Pony Scout was later renamed the Junior Scout and continued until the beginning of World War II.[5][6] Girder forks were used on the 1934-1942 Sport Scout[7] and on the 1945-1948 Chief.[5]

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