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john, If you email your email address to [email protected], I can send you lots more + photos then here; Actually EVs do have a proven record like big BAKER EVs from over a century ago (1895) + many other earlier oldies. Any day I’d prefer my 1/4 century TRICAR, though I’d still be happier with a Stanley Steamer + Condenser than any ICE!! ALL new EVs MUST be more like my dual ultra-cheap TRICAR home-made largely from civilised junk, aluminium, bike wheels, part-plywood, carbon-fibre or fibreglass - else they are atrociously out of date. Weight 40kg = about 50 times less the weight of other heavy EVs that are ridiculously copying decades of overweight deadly-inefficient toxic IC cars. From end of 1800s to real early 1900s there were huge & small cars - as I saw in a vast long moving procession of 100s on TV recently, including Cadillacs etc; most fuel, some electric (back to 1895), some perfect steam - with horse powers ranging from 1.5 or less, most about 4 or 6 hp, some few 26 hp odd - but my 2-seat TRICAR EV has only 1/4 hp or 200 watt since 27 years ago, not irrational & ridiculous 100s of EV hp like for a racing car!!! I have 8 Shimano gears to steering front wheel via short chain to 12″ wheel hub for incredible speed + hill climbing ability. Gears seem to be Pre-selector type. There is a small solid-state speed controller that never changed design over 25 years (even same manager!) + another plug to apply full 12 v cheap car battery to motor - Perfect. Award-Winning it still looks & performs like NEW, 3 bike-wheel, 1WD electric solar-charged vehicle designed not to break down & it hasn’t. We can both slightly help pedal up steep hills (my 87-year old tiny partner was not needed to pedal up steep hills, though did for pleasure & was good at that easy shared job!). Here there is no need to tax, licence (I’ve had none for about 40 years!!) or insure it on highways = utterly free transport that can carry a big cargo + pull a heavy trolley even with a kid aboard - though forbidden on motorways. Always free on ferries & trains. If just me on vehicle & wheel I was sitting over went flat, I would simply swap seats to be over other wheel & carry on. It should have optional regenerative brakes. It can pull a heavy trolley & carry loads of freight if not a kid. Mass produced with largely standard components, it should cost less than $1,000. Amazing how nobody seems curious?Most EVs are nowhere near ECO-friendly because they are usually still massively coal-fired. You should NOT make a successful EV to be or look like an ICV. Also: Compared to our non-produced TRiCAR, TESLA hysteria has seen no more REAL BENEFIT progress since 1895 EVs. Here are some of their massive problems: compared to our TRiCAR, MANY THINGS (are quoted to) SUCK RE TESLA which is too BIG for an EV; its about 40 times too heavy; it’s horsepower is 100s of times too much like a clunking race car where 1900s big cars had 4 to 8 hp though our TRiCAR has a mere 1/4 hp with 8 gears; battery cost over 100 times more than ought at $5,000 after 500 charges which could be not much more than a year reportedly for some drivers; total vehicle cost about 35 times too much + I read about scores of TESLA faults to be or not to be fixed, unlike none on TRiCAR for over 26 years. EVs should have small bike wheels like ours which have a strip of tough tyre material between inner tube & tyre for puncture protection. TESLA has a mass of computer junk & we all know how unreliable that can be & can you sue them? We need no charging points; instead a 46-watt home or carried Solar panel soon charges its battery, or charges 2 replacement batteries, if not mains charged, 1 being an extra for range. For emergency, TRICAR easily carries a reclining patient, or our folded long-range Chinese FREEGO micro electric K scooter.BACKUP OPTIONS: Still nobody seems to worry if a massive CV like Tesla is caught out 100 km from humanity in bush or desert with a flat battery or broken down. We have several simple solutions to recover or avoid our TRICAR from similar: We easily carry 1 bigger or up to 2 more small batteries for vastly greater speed & range than 50 km. We can pedal somewhere to get home, or take the battery somewhere to get charged, or buy a new standard battery, or I can easily lift the vehicle into a small van, or even hitch-hike to some great distance with scooter. If too far to pedal, TRICAR easily carries our folded long-range Chinese FREEGO electric K scooter. A reclining patient is easily accommodated… We can carry a small folding 46watt solar panel to open on the grass; or we could carry a tiny model plane motor + generator to charge the battery. Plus if TRICAR did breakdown, being homemade like bolted Meccano, it’s easy to fix or lift into a small van. To charge the 50 AH gel lead or Lithium battery - unlike other EV batteries costing $5000 - needs only a home 46 w solar panel, if not on home mains. Also for quick home charge, simply switch batteries. Anyway why not have 2 dirt-cheap TRICARS?Incredibly, when you legally Hitchhike in Fiji, all private & public vehicles including taxis can charge up to no more than the cheap buses for most anywhere at any time - unless you call for a taxi, else pick it up at the rank - about $1 which is massively emission & crowd avoiding! Of course here they would probably insist on a police good conduct card. But to see vastly less traffic, a taxi making more than usual single fare & private cars or trucks stuffed with 6 passengers is amazing any time day or night & anywhere is a miracle! Such effect if it became universal would be enormous.MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE Electric SCOOTER MODEST SPECIFICATIONS: see photo. I have studied 100s of scooter specs via Google etc & my current favored vehicle is a tiny K-style, 11 kg, 3-wheel, Economical electric fold-up - with bag if necessary - cheap Chinese micro scooter ES-18 from FREEGO having a massive 50 km range per charge has proven indispensable (it can also easily be scooted by foot to help if battery flat on steep hills, & of course it speeds down even gentle hills), trolley-capable when folded + non-pneumatic tyres + sprung female seat. Speed can be up to 20 km/hour though much faster down hill free-wheel, whilst steep-hill capability is amazing, & I'm no lightweight. Motor = 1/4 hp so in this country no registration, license or insurance needed - but not on freeways. Charging can be by lightweight fold-able 46 watt solar panel charging a car battery with small inverter that feeds scooter’s mains adaptor; if not from home mains. Can even pull a trolley with junior in it, or wheelchair. Cost only $520 inc post in small box from China. Optional regenerative braking would be ideal providing no drag when not being used. Used far more than TRICAR, which can easily carry the scooter. With our 1/3 century, all 12 volt-solar appliances, the electric grid has long long ago been banished for us - - - ALL FREE. Amazing how everywhere I go, folk are so curious to the extent we formed a club of people yet to get their scooter!! Every car should carry one.Alternative Vehicles & Fuels: Alcohol from sugarcane as in Brazil which can lead to starvation on farms, wood-gas producers I was familiar with on farms during WW2, liquid natural gas, compressed air, ethanol alcohol or mix, methane from digesters, wood & coal for STEAM engines- - - ``My Favourite Steam cars could get up Mount Wilson outside LA long before petrol cars could &, without gears, would then beat them in any race with full steam torque & brakes still on. During WW2, Dutch farmers would remove engine, gearbox & clutch etc from a van, with a horse to pull it. A French invention L'AUTO HIPPIQUE = horse behind driver who steers. But favourite Vehicle - apart from sailboats - is my 50 km range micro electric Chinese scooter. Dachshund dog (could have enjoyed being vegetarian & he knew the way home even without a good harness), sheep or goat helped pull my teen bike up hills on long 1950s cycle rides. ``Can’t do without my geared folding Brompton UK micro aluminum bike that has been round the world with me to Glasgow Conference etc; & I can strap on a big suitcase where it sits on a piece of angle iron + elastic hooks; even with angle iron attached, I made it so bike could still easily fold. Sadly my tiny petrol folding-scooter was stolen. I’ve seen it go up a steep hill with 2 teen girls, one sitting the other standing; it needed no registration. It could carry & haul a huge load + trolley. Maintenance was more of a problem + mixing oil into fuel. Quiet current folding EV scooter more fun. USUAL Petrol mix or diesel. Wind turbine & Flettner Sailboats or sail with my sail self-steering that enabled me to be on bed with books, radio, chatting, sleeping & position-finding right across the Pacific.

Here is how they do it in my country, England.It is normal for people on low incomes to buy small sailboats and keep them ‘on the cheap’ because we have a strong connection with the sea, many families have fishermen in their members or ancestry, and nowhere in the country is far from the coast, at least in US or China terms at any rate. And our language is littered with phrases from sailing (and boxing) in normal use, so the concept is not strange here.I have a lot of experience in this area, as will any older boat owner on the east coast of England. This is the home of popular ownership of small sailboats at low cost. All the following info relates to a small sailing cruiser: a smallish sailboat designed as a weekender, with a small cabin and an outboard motor.The economy options operate in these areas related to buying and mooring a boat:Buy a cheaper, smaller boatKeep it at a low-cost club somewhere that is not fashionableLift it out for several months a year so you can work on it easilyLearn how to do the various jobs neededThe boatAt this point in time, older, cheaper boats are often better built than modern ones. For example an old 23 foot fibreglass small sailing cruiser from the 70s or 80s is far stronger than the modern equivalent, because they didn’t know then how light you can safely build a fibreglass boat. Example: a 23′ Leisure or Westerly from that era is a better boat structurally than anything built today, because they built them so strongly and heavily compared to today. They are not as good for races, but these boats are far better for their purpose than a cruiser/racer.So don’t dismiss older boats as being of less worth - they can actually be better for an economy-mode owner, since they are safer to make mistakes in (accidental groundings have less serious effects) and they are strong enough to allow frequent beaching for painting the bottom, or taking the ground to wait out a tide, and so on. Fibreglass does not decay with age, at least over the 60 years or so we have experience of. It can develop some problems on the surface exposed to the water, called osmosis, but this is almost always only a visual issue and not of any structural importance - unless it has been ignored, and goes deep after years of zero maintenance. Usually, boats lifted out in the off-season don’t get this problem as the hull dries out. The worst cases will occur in warm fresh water; some of the cases I saw in South Africa were frightening and basically needed a hull rebuild after a year of drying out, parked up in hot conditions. Check out the Richard’s Bay boatyard :0 - also good for the hurricane layup keel holes, where they dig holes in the ground for the keels then lash the boat down sitting in a hole.You must take an experienced boat owner with you when inspecting a boat, if you can’t afford a surveyor. Buying a sailboat over 20′ without expert advice is a bad idea - you just won’t know what sins to look for.Avoid wood boats or anything other than GRP in your price range and size range (probably 20 to 23 feet). Do not buy a wooden boat because it’s a lot cheaper - there are good reasons wood boats are cheap. You will hear endlessly that wood boats are OK, but please take it from me that you must avoid this choice unless you are a carpenter and like boatbuilding and maintenance for hundreds of hours every year. Such persons are rare; every wooden boat owner I ever met bought a GRP boat once they could afford it. Modern epoxy strip laminate and strip planked wood boats are a different matter, but these are not in your price range.Don’t go smaller than 20′ as this makes life too difficult. A 19′ boat is significantly smaller than a 20-footer, and the main difference you find is that it is basically more like a dinghy with a lid on, you have to crawl into it, and it tips crazily when you go forward to handle the sails. Your size range is probably 20 to 23 or 24 feet.Almost all these boats all have outboards. An outboard engine is temporarily attached to the transom (back end) of the boat and removed when on the mooring, and stored inside for security. In this size range, a small outboard is fine: 4hp for a lighter 20′ sailboat, 6hp for most in this size range, and 10hp for a heavier sailing cruiser at 23 or 24 feet.You’ll find that the engine could be anywhere from nearly new to old and totally knackered - because of this, it is a major consideration in the cost of the boat. With a new outboard you will have to change the propeller to a larger one in order to get the best performance, as the engines are propped for lightweight open motorboats that go a lot faster; but it’s nothing to worry about, and you can leave it as-is (it’s mainly something to consider if you buy a new engine - you would never buy a new outboard with a standard prop, to use on a small sailboat). Ideally you need a long-shaft motor and a larger prop with less pitch.The fuel costs are tiny unless you have no wind to speak of and want to motor everywhere. I used to sail 3,000 miles a year on a small boat while in full-time work (would have gone a lot farther of course, but had to be back on Monday morning without fail), and never spent more than £50 a year on fuel. Mind you we have a lot of wind.It is unlikely that I ever spent more than £600 or £700 a year in total, when I was a boat owner of this type, except for a year in which I bought a new sail.Inventory and sailsAnother significant part of the cost price is the state of the sails and inventory. Good, reasonably new sails are worth paying more for, as new sails are expensive, and they have a finite life since usage, wear and UV light degrades them. Sails might include mainsail, jib, genoa (preferably on a headsail furler), cruising chute or spinnaker, and storm jib.The ‘inventory’ is everything that comes with the boat. Some of it is vital and you can’t leave harbour without it; some of it is just nice to have. Some of the items are: anchor, chain, anchor line, depth sounder and other instruments, mooring warps, compass, fenders, charts (probably out of date though), deck harness with inflating life vest, safety tethers with Wichard hooks or similar, spare gas bottle for the cooker, VHF radio and antenna, radar reflector, emergency flares (not date expired!), tender (a dinghy to get to and from the boat). This list is endless, and the amount of gear the boat has and its age and condition are reflected in the asking price.Has the boat ever had a survey and can you see it? With who does the current owner insure it, and how will you insure it (strongly advised)? A quick call to the current insurer, if you can get to see the insurance document, can come in handy - ask if the boat has ever been repaired or claims have been made.How do you know the seller has a valid title to the boat? How is it registered? Can this be checked?Does it have a boat trailer or a mooring, currently?Type of boatIf you sail in deep waters - which tend by their nature to be rocky areas - then the most popular choice is a fin keel boat. If you sail in shallower waters - which tend to have sandbanks, spits and mudbanks - then a twin keeler is a better choice, as you will sometimes hit the ground and get stuck for a tide. (A ‘spit’ is an underwater projection of mudbank or sandbank, common in shallow waters such as river mouths, where unwary sailors get stuck for a tide after hitting them.) Murphy’s First Law Of Sailing says you only hit an unseen spit on a falling tide.A fin keeler is a nightmare when this happens, unless you have beaching legs - it will tip over as the water recedes, and can end up facing downhill. A twin-keel boat can also be called a bilge keel boat - these boats stand squarely and safely on the ground (often, on three legs: two keels and the rudder skeg). Some of them sail well - certainly well enough for someone who is cruising not racing, and the added safety factors of shallower draught and safe grounding cannot be overlooked. From my point of view a twin keel boat is the automatic choice when looking at small sailboats to use in muddy or sandy waters. (Unless you can find a lift-keel sailboat and can afford it; they cost more due to the build issues and the complexity.)Some twin keelers are exceptional seaboats for their size: a Westerly Centaur 26 foot twin keel boat is an old, heavily built cruiser that will keep up with most fin-keelers in that price range and outsail them when things get tough; it also has a strong motor for its size at 25hp, which means it can motor-sail very competently into bad weather - a very useful ability for any sailing cruiser. A good sailor could easily sail round the world in one. If you aren’t a good sailor when you start out, you will be when you get back :)A Leisure 23 Mk1 twin keel is a cheap boat (here) that is extremely tough and will go anywhere within reason, and will keep you safe in weather that may cause owners of lightweight fin keelers that size to think about calling the coastguard for a lifeboat to rescue them.MooringBoats have to be kept somewhere. You can dry-sail it: in this size range you can use a large boat trailer and capable vehicle to run it down a ramp into the water, then recover it the same way. Or you can moor it on a buoy inside a river or harbour. Mud berths are popular in this price range: also known as half-tide berths - your boat is afloat for half the tidal cycle. This type of mooring suits twin keelers, not fin keelers. Or you can keep it in a marina.There are many more options depending on where you live, how much you want to spend, and so on. My choice in your position would be to try and find a small sailboat club in a place that does not command high prices due to its unfashionable position, perhaps some distance up a river. There are endless numbers of these in the UK, but your situation may be different.Security is important, so you need to evaluate how your boat will be protected from weather and thieves. You should insure it, rates are normally cheap for these small boats.Moorings have to be safe from extreme weather - they are no good if open to the wind and waves, your boat is at risk of coming adrift or being sunk at its mooring.Lift-out and MaintenanceSmall boat owners in this class are well-served by lifting out every year. In the UK we usually do this over winter, because the weather can be extreme and boats left afloat on open moorings are at risk of storm damage.The lift-out also has many benefits: you can do any maintenance far more easily ashore, and you will probably need to paint on new antifouling every year. The bottom of a boat accumulates weed, barnacles and other marine life when left afloat, and this can slow a sailboat down to a crawl. Putting antifouling paint on the bottom every year or two stops the weed growing as it contains copper or other materials the marine life will not attach to. Some paints are good for two years, and in the non-painting year you just scrub the bottom: pressure wash it and scrub with a stiff brush.At this time you also renew any worn-out or broken parts, repaint the varnish on wood trim, and polish any bits you want to look sparkly. On a wooden boat, the maintenance list is infinite and without any end in sight - even after 6 months ashore there will still be more jobs you could have done if you had the time. Don’t buy one unless you prefer working on a boat to sailing it.General adviceGet hold of some copies of Practical Boat Owner from the UK. It is far and away the world’s best magazine for people with small sailboats who don’t have a large bank balance. The advice and expertise in there will be priceless for you. Old copies are just fine, by the way - the content has no expiry date, boat maintenance and seamanship don’t change much.Do a training course, or join a small club where the members will help to teach you how to sail and navigate safely. Preferably both: get some kind of certificate, and find a good club. One useful way to proceed is to visit several small sailboat clubs and talk to people there.Sailing adviceTime does not exist for a small sailboat owner. You go everywhere at walking speed. You might get to the next harbour or river mouth down the coast in reasonable time, because of course you left with good weather, a fair wind and a fair tide. On the way back, though, Murphy’s Second Law Of Sailing operates: when heading home to make the Monday morning clock-in time at work, you’re screwed, as everything will be against you. You could find the weather against you, and on top of that a foul tide - the wind is directly against you, which means you can’t sail where you want to go, and the waves are difficult for a small boat to make any headway into, and the tide is against you as well. Give up and go home by train.Never plan on set schedules when sailing in a small boat. It’s a mistake, will only result in fails, and might even kill you.Get a portable GPS made for sailing and guard it with your life when afloat: keep it safe and secure always. An inexperienced sailor with old charts or no charts and a broken GPS on a rough night is potentially a dead sailor.Never run a GPS on lat and long, always have it showing your track and waypoints. (This means: do not use the GPS with the screen showing current latitude and longitude unless you are in the process of transferring that position to a paper chart - always have it displaying your track between waypoints.) A whole subject in itself of course, but GPS is a huge advantage to modern sailors that should not be ignored.The DangerTwo things will kill you in a sailboat: trying to keep to an impossible time schedule, and tiredness. They are especially dangerous for an inexperienced owner with a small sailboat.Forget being somewhere at a set time, or trying to get home to make work on Monday morning, if the weather is against you. Go by car in the first place, or go home by train and leave your boat in a harbour or marina.Tiredness comes on fast offshore, unless you are experienced. For the inexperienced, offshore sailing - even in fine weather - can be very tiring, and it can catch you out. This is because when you are at your most tired, approaching port at the end of the journey, everything can be against you: it could be late and after dark, the harbour or river entrance may be unknown to you, the weather may have changed for the worse, the voyage may have taken longer than you expected and so you have arrived at low tide, the lights are unknown to you and could be faulty, you are dog-tired and hungry and just want to get ashore and put the kettle on for a cup of coffee and get a meal started, and you lose your common sense. This is the time when people lose their boats on a rock or hit a hard underwater sandbank going too fast and damage the hull where it meets the keel. Sand underwater is like concrete, and you can think of it as like a flat-top rock, more or less.So avoid schedules if you’re going sailing, and try to sail sensible, short distances until you really know the score. There are old sailors, and there are bold sailors, but there are no old, bold sailors :)Where to buy your small sailboatNow that is a question I cannot answer. You’re on your own.Good luck and fair winds.————————-A2A: “How can I buy and maintain a small sailing yacht with low income (8000$ a year)?I dream of having a small sea-going sailing yacht with berths and just enough space for 2 people. I live in a third-world country, and earn very little money, though what I earn (8000$ a year) is way above our average yearly salary. Prices here are comparable to USA’s. How can I realize my dream?”

Legendary Timeline of Royal Enfield1891 - Albert Eadie and R.W. Smith started the Eadie Manufacturing company, which later went on to become the Enfield Cycle company at Redditch. Townsend Cycle company in Redditch was taken over by them to form the Enfield Manufacturing Company Ltd.1893 - Started suppying precision rifle parts to the Royal Small Arms factory in Enfield, Middlesex. To capitalise on this prestigious contract the world 'Royal' is added and the brand 'Royal Enfield' is born and the legendary 'Made Like a Gun' trademark is coined.1898 - R.W Smith designs a prototype motorised vehicle, a four wheel bicycle known as quadricycle1899 - Company launches Tricycles and Quadricycles powered by De Dion engine.1900 - Quadricycle took part in the well known 1000 mile(1609 km) trial of 19001901 - 1st RE motorised bicycle is produced.1904 - The engine is moved inside the frame for the first time. This becomes a standard configuration for the bikes1906 - The Enfield Autocar company, the car manufacturing arm of Enfield cycle company is established on the 1st of March in Redditch1907 - Alldays and Onions acquire Enfield Autocar company New Factory opened in Hewell Road site. It covered 24 acres ( 9.7 ha). This was RE's home for the next 60 years1909 - Royal Enfiled showcases its 2.5 HP V-twin powered engine motorcycle at the UK motorshow1910 - The Enfiled Autocar company breaks away from RE1911 - RE starts using chain drive system for its motorcycles. Model 1601912 - 18 HP utility models launched. Sidecars are introducedFirst British Motorcycle to employ rubber cush drive system in the rear wheel to minimize chain snatch. It was a separate hub with a series of rubber blocks and provided the chance of greatly increased chain life.This innovation was first to be sold and copied by countless other motorcycles1913 - Indigenously developed the first - 225cc and 2 stroke & 3 HP/425cc ioe V-Twin engineFirst British Motorcycle to feature Dry Sump Lubrication with an automatic geared Oil Pump. Every other manufacturer used pilgrim-type hand operated pump with its total loss lubrication system1914 - RE was called on to supply motorcycles to the British War Dept in the wake of the First World War ( known as The Great War). Belgian government ordered 50 3 hp Enfield motorcycles for despatch riders.1915 - Supplied to Imperial Russian Army1916 - 6 HP motorcycles equipped with Lewis machine guns and strecher is manufactured for WW11919 - Resumes civilian production with the 8 HP sidecar combo and the 225 , 2 stroke model1921 - Vickers manufacture 976cc V Twin Wolseley engine, designed by Royal Enfield, for bigger model motorcycles1924 - 1st 4 stroke single cylinder 350cc motorcycle is launched1926 - Ladies Model launched : 225cc1928 - 'Saddle Tank' Design and centrespring girder front forks1930 - The 1930 Model Range was announcedModel A -225 cc (64x70mm) two-stroke singleModel B - 225 cc (64x70mm) side-valve singleModel C - 346 cc (70x90mm) side-valve singleModel F - 346 cc (70x90mm) side-valve singleModel G - 346 cc (70x90mm) side-valve singleModel CO - 346 cc (70x90mm) overhead-valve singleModel D - 488 cc (85.5 x 85mm)side-valve singleModel H - 488 cc (85.5 x 85mm)side-valve singleModel HA - 488 cc (85.5 x 85mm)side-valve singleModel E - 488 cc (85.5 x 85mm)overhead-valve singleModel J - 488 cc (85.5 x 85mm)overhead-valve singleModel JA - 488 cc (85.5 x 85mm)overhead-valve singleModel K - 976 cc Side-valve V- twin1931 - The Bullet bicycle is launched. 24 pounds1932 - The Bullet Name Arrives. The now-famous 'Bullet' name was used applied to the range of ohv singles in 248,346 and 488cc engine sizes.1933 - Major Frank Smith takes over the management of the company.Develops its 3-valve, 488cc single cylinder engine. The machine features for the first time an enclosed valve gear.1935 - Enters its 500cc 4-valve racing model in the senior TT for the last time. Changes its engine to 3-valve the interval oil tank is now placed in front of the crankshaft1937 - Lawn-movers are showcased at the British Industries Fair, alongside its bikes,cycles and carriers.1938 - Model G is introduced and is considered as father of the post-war Bullet range1939 - 1945 : Supplies the British War Dept. with the following during WWII:Motorcycles, 125cc, 250cc, 350cc, 570cc.Bicycles, military and civilian.Predictors for Bofars anti-aircraft guns.Oil motors for Bofars gun; ships stabilisers; searchlight controls; fuse setting, etc.Diesel generator sets for wireless stations.Petrol generator sets.Electrically-driven generator sets, for testing aeroplanes and radar equipment.Resetter boxes for gun sights.Gyroscopic sight for Oerlikon and other guns.Anti-vibration mounts for gun sights.Armor-piercing shot for 40mm anti-tank guns.Petrol-driven pump units for tank turrets.Straight-line cams for use in precision instruments.Self-synchronising equipment for 40mm guns.Lag-compensating and self-sectoring equipment for gun sights.Tubular crates for enclosing motorcycles to be dropped from parachutes.Iconic WD/RE or Flying Flea is designed to be dropped by parachute with airborne troops.Patents the 'Neutral Finder ' consisting of a small lever placed on the side of the gearbox, wish brings the motorcycle into neutral when tapped on it.1951 - Launches 692cc Meteor Twin. It is christened as the Worlds first superbike by motorcycling enthusiasts.1953 - The famous RE metal wings starts appearing on the petrol tank during this time.RE receives a massive order from the Indian Army to supply a total of 800 ,350cc bullets ohv singles.The performance,reliability and ease of maintenance of the bike made it suitable for police and army for patrolling the country's border.The bikes had to be 'ready for action' , which meant each engine needed to be seize proof.1954 - The iconic casquette with twin pilot lights arrives. Known as the 'Tiger Eyes' it would become the striking feature of RE motorcycles.Enfield India Ltd is established jointly with the RE, Redditch. Iyer floated Enfield India Ltd to manufacture Royal Enfield's under license from the British company.Royal Enfields were painted red, and marketed in the USA as Indian Motorcycles by the Brockhouse Corporation, who had control of the Indian Sales Corporation (and therefore Indian Motorcycles) and had stopped manufacturing all American Indians in the Springfield factory in 1953List of Badge engineered bikes : Indian Fire Arrow (350 Bullet), Indian Chief(700 Meteor , Indian Trail Blazer (700 Meteor), Indian Fire Arrow (250 Crusader), Indian Hounds Arrow (250 Crusader)1956 - Thiruvottiyur Factory is setup in Chennai( erstwhile Madras) on 2.96 acres of land. 163 Bullets are produced in the first year.1959 - The 1st UCE 250cc engine is developed.1960 - RE motorcycles, 250cc Hornet, 500cc Fury and the 700cc Interceptor win 31 out of 39 races in the Big Bear run in USA1961 - Interceptor Series 1. To counter the onslaught of Japanese bikes RE England launches Interceptor in the US marketA 5 speed gearbox engine (launched with the Super 5) was developed, which made RE the first British production motorcycle to do so.1962 - Fantabulus scooter launched in India. 173cc ,2 stroke1963 - Café Racer styled Continental GT is launched. Britain's fastest 250cc at that time1966 - RE shuts down its Redditch Factory. The India operation continues1969 - Rickman Brothers became involved with the Enfield marque.The result was Rickman Interceptor using a Series 2 engine. 736cc,Metisse chassis, 52 bhp twin, 190-193kmph1970 - Last of the Interceptors marketed in the USA badged as Indian.The Enfield cycle company goes out of business in the UK. All Enfield units in UK shut shop and the machinery is sold off.1973 - Enfield India launches the 2-stroke Crusader,powdered by a 175cc villers engine1980 - Mini Bullet is launched to compete with the lighter models in India (200 cc Crusader engine)1984 - Enfield India exports Bullets to UK owing to the rise in demand for Enfield Bullets.1988 - Enfield India ties up with Zudapp to manufacture Fury (163cc),Explorer (50cc) and the Silver Plus (50cc). Explorer becomes 1st motorcycle in India to sport a disc brake1989 - Enfield launches the MOFA. Mini moped designed by Morbidelli of Italy to manufacture in India. The 22 cc two-stroke engine had a centrifugal clutch and the fuel was carried in the frame down tube.1991 - Enfield India launches the Worlds first Diesel motorcycle, Taurus.312 cc, 6.5 bhp Lombardini diesel engine, and 3.5 hp version, Gearbox was beefed up to withstand increased torque.1993 - Bullet 500 launched in India. India's first 500cc1994 - Eicher group acquires Enfield India Ltd. Company is renamed to Royal Enfield1996 - India's first cruiser styled bike is launched- Lightning 5351997 - 40 RE motorcycles ride from Delhi to Khardungla- one of the world's highest motorable road. This marks the birth of Himalayan Odyssey.1998 - Lean Burn Aluminium engine is introduced with the lauch of Machismo A 3502000 - Royal Enfield – Official Website is launched. Riders and fans log on to share their stories2001 - Electronic Ignition is added to motorcycles. It was introduced with Electra.2002 - Thunderbird is launched.2003 - Rider Mania-the Annual get-together of RE riders and fans starts in Goa.2005 - RE celebrates 50 glorious years in India. The Royal Enfield Electra X powered by the Lean Burn 500cc kitted in the ‘Clubman’ guise dominates the café racer scene, with it being the only modern motorcycle available for enthusiasts.2006 - Fully integrated Twinspark engine with a 5 speed transmission introduced. Performance and Fuel Efficiency improved.2008 - Classic 500 launched at Intermot ,Germany for export markets2009 - Classic 350 and 500 launched in India2010 - Army Service Corps(ASC) Tornados team successfully mounts 54 men on a single RE 500cc setting a new world record2011 - RE acquires 50 acres of land at Orragadam near chennai for their second plant.2012 - Thunderbird 500 is launched. Royal Enfield Continental GT showcased at the Auto Expo-New Delhi .Apparels and accessories also launched.2013 - Continental GT is launched2014 - Enfield unveils its new logo which is “fresher, more vibrant and contemporary - while rigidly holding on to its British-motorcycling roots” alongside a monogram and crest.2015 - As a tribute to the despatch riders of the World War era, Royal Enfield developed a new range of riding apparel and accessories as well as a new paint scheme for its Classic 500 motorcycles. Labelled as the Despatch motorcycles these were produced only in limited numbers.2016 - RE Himalayan is launched.Racing Heritage1911 - Isle of Man TT1913 - Brooklands Six Hour Race : 2nd and 3rd place in 350cc category1914 - Isle of Man Tourist Trophy : Junior 350 cc race Frederick James Walker1925 - ACU Six Days Trial Commercial Sidecars Category : Special Certificate of MeritUlster Grand Prix: Rank 1 - George Burney | 350cc |65.5mph(105kmph)1926 - Isle of Man TT - Junior TT (350cc) Rank 6 | John Gordon BurneySenior TT - Rank 10 | John Gordon Burney1927 - Isle of Man TT - Junior TT (350cc) Rank 4 | George L Reynard(UK) | 4.08.24Rank 7 | C S Barrow(UK) | 4.15.23 timeLightweight TT (250cc) Rank 7 | C S Barrow(UK) | 4.36.21 time1928 - Isle of Man TT - Junior TT (350cc) Rank 6 | George L Reynard(UK) | 62.9mph | 4.12.00.0Retired: E Magner(Sweden)Lightweight TT (250cc)Rank 2 | C S Barrow(UK) |58.92mph | 4.29.01.0Rank 16 | E Magner(Sweden)Rank 10 | J G Burney(UK) |J G Burneymph | 4.45.12.01930 - E Magner (Sweden) Worlds Fastest 3-wheelerWorld Speed Car record : 117.76mph(189km)1000cc JAP V-Twin RE and sidecarVenue: frozen Great Lake during winter1935 - Isle of Man TT - Senior TT (500cc) Rank 8| C S Barrow(UK) | 74.62mph(120.06 kmph)Royal Enfield entered a 500 cc Four valve-Racing model for the Senior TT 1935. This is the last TT Royal Enfield entered.1938 - Scottish Six Days Trails George Holdsworth : 3rd Place1939 - Scottish Six Days Trails Charlie Rogers : 3rd Place1946 - Exmoor Trail Charlie Rogers : 1st PlaceDouglas Trial Charlie Rogers : 1st Place1948 - Colmoe Trial - lauch of swinging arm bulletCharlie Rogers : 1st class , Jack Plowright: 2nd classISDT- San Remo,ItalyBritish Trophy Team membersCharlie Rogers [GWP 369] and Vic Brittain [GWP 366] - bullet 350ccRoyal Enfield riders in the 1948 event- Charlie Rogers, Vic Brittain , Tom Ellis and Jack StockerAllan Jefferies Trial | Charlie Rogers: 1st place((346 RE)Team Award : Charlie Rogers and T.U Ellis1949 - Scottish Six Days Trails | N.Holmes : 2nd Place(Bullet)1950 - ISDT- Wales | Johnny Brittain : 1st PlaceScottish Six Days Trails | Johnny Brittain : 1st Place1952 - Scottish Six Days Trails | Johnny Brittain : 1st Place1953 - ISDT-Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia | Johnny Brittain part of British Trophy TeamScottish Six Days Trails | Johnny Brittain : 3rd Place1955 - Scott Trial | Johnny Brittain : 1st Place ( out of 145 entries )1956 - Scott Trial | Johnny Brittain : 1st Place ( out of 139 entries)Thruxton Nine Hours | Dennis Christian & Eddie Crookes : Retired | 692cc Super Meteor1957 - Scottish Six Days Trails | Johnny Brittain : 1st Place(350cc)Thruxton Nine Hours | Derek Powell and Brian Newman : 3rd | 692cc Super Meteor1958 - Thruxton 500-MilerBob McIntyre & Derek Powell : 2nd | 692cc Super MeteorKen James & Brian Newman : 3rd | 1958 Constellation1959 - Thruxton 500-MilerBob McIntyre : Retired | 692cc Super Meteor1960 - Thruxton 500-MilerBob McIntyre & Alan Rutherford : Retired | 692cc Super Meteor1964 - Oulton Park | John Hartle | Retired (GP5 prototype)Cock O' the North-Scarborough | Percy Tait - 3rd place (250cc)Ulster GP | Percy Tait - 12th place (250cc)Manx GP | Neil Kelly - GP5 fastest practice lap of that year by a 250cc | 82.39mph(133kmph) - retired during the raceDennis Craine- retired | GP5 ' Mark2'1965 - Midland Racing Club Meeting | John Rudge - 1st place | GP5Castle Combe | John Rudge - 3rd place | GP5Southern 100 | John Rudge - 3rd place | GP5Thruxton Race |Gordon Keith - 3rd Place | GP5Silverstone International Meet| Percy Tait - 3rd Place | GP5 - twinspark transistorized ignition1966 - Manx GP | James Ward - 17th place | GP51967 - Manx GP -Lightweight | James Ward - 17th place and Silver Repilica| GP51968 - Manx GP -Lightweight | James Ward- GP5 | Retired1969 - Manx GP -Lightweight | James Ward- GP5 | 52nd1970 - Manx GP | James Ward- GP5 | retiredI had done the research on RE as part of my project, wherein I am trying to build an informational website of the same. The major sources of info were RE official website and the book - 'Royal Enfield - The Complete Story ' by Mick WalkerInformational Website on Royal EnfieldA glimpse of the website under construction (video below):