The Harley-Davidson did start to became known when William Harley and Arthur Davidson produced last 1903 the first development of motorcycle. The motobike that was built was a racing bike. It was made in a small shed wooden labeled Harley-Davidson Motor Company on the front door. After one year they manufactured 3 motorcycles for the public. Harley Davidson Road King Exhaust
In 1905 Harley-Davidson wins it’s 1st race and hires it’s first employee. After 3 years, they sold to the Detroit Police department their first motorcycles which was used as a police service. In 1912 H-D started building it’s 6 story factory and exports it’s first bikes to Japan, the very first time sales were extended outside of the United States.
1914 marks the year H-D formally goes in itself into the national racing circuit, and is fairly quickly known as “The Wrecking Crew” for it’s dominance in the racing industry. In 1917, part of the motorcyles they produced were sold the military and was used as military and civilian bikes.
Half of the bikes in 1918 were provided for Military service of World War 1 and it was Roy Holtz the first soldier have ridden the H-D Motorcycle in Germany. The H-D became even more efficient in 1920, generated 2000 dealers in 67 countries.
Most of the competitors of Harley-Davidson disappeared in 1931 except for the Indian Motorcycle Company. In 1953, there were only two successful motocrycle companies, the Harley-Davidson and the Indian Motorcycle Company.
As the world gets into into World War 2, so does Harley go back into Military motorcycle development, and the service school is transformed back into the military motorcycle service school, also called the Quartermaster School for military mechanics. The Harley-Davidson Motorcycle were hardly ever reached out by the public during this time.