And BTW, you probably ALSO know then that Indian Motorcycles of Springfield MA also designed and built a few models that they hoped the U.S. Army would buy that kind'a sort'a resemble a Moto Guzzi motorcycle, where instead on opposed-cylinders the cylinder heads where at a V-Twin configuation and which also ran a shaft to the rear wheel.
Word was that because of certain design flaws in it, the U.S.Army went with the Harley BMW-clone model instead, and because of the expense in the R and D of this machine, that that was one of the reasons that Indian Motorcycles found themselves in some financial strain in the Postwar Era, and never seemed to be in financial health from that time to when they ceased production in 1953(I think it was).
