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traveling from Los Angeles to Staten Island in six days, 22 hours, 52 minutes.
But the Ace Motor Corp. didn’t survive long.
Henderson was killed in 1922 when a speeding car came out of a side street and hit him while
he was testing an Ace Sporting Solo.
The Ace Motor Corp. failed in 1924. A reorganization was attempted in 1926, but the Ace glory was forever gone.
The company produced its last machine in 1924 and was eventually sold to the Indian Motorcycle Company of Springfield, MA, in 1927.
Indian continued to produce and sell the four-cylinder engine until 1943 under its brand.
The Henderson brothers’ motorcycles influenced the design of four-cylinder motorcycles for decades. The Henderson, the ACE and the Indian Four sprang from the work of the brothers, both of whom are in the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in Pickerington, Ohio.
The 1924 Ace on display at the Hall of Fame is one of the last machines built by the company.
It features a 78-cubic-inch (1,278 cc) four-cylinder motor, a three-speed transmission, 27-inch wheels and a 59-inch wheelbase. The standard model featured iron pistons, while another $20 got you the Sporting Solo model, with aluminum pistons.
The Ace came with an advertised top speed of 85 mph.
It is just one of the many historic machines owned by the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame museum, which is located on the picturesque grounds of the American Motorcyclist Association.
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For more information about the Hall of Fame, visit www.americanmotorcyclist.com/hof.
For more information about the AMA, visit www.americanmotorcyclist.com.
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Founded in 1924,
the nonprofit American Motorcyclist Association is the premier advocate for the motorcycling community, representing the interests of
millions of American on-and off-highway motorcyclists and all-terrain vehicle
riders. The AMA
mission is to promote the motorcycle lifestyle and protect the future
of motorcycling.
Daniel Clepper Collections Manager, AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame
The AMA Motorcycle
Hall of Fame is open
daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except on Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
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