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trevj said:
Do any of those Companies actually have a clear lineage back to their namesakes? Or are they like the likes of Triumph, Norton, or Indian (or South Bend Lathes, for that matter), where they are simply the result of trying to cash in on a bought name?
Honestly, I kinda respect Enfield India a bit, as they actually bought and carried off, the entire Enfi4eld factory, and carried on making the same technology level, right up until they couldn't any more, and upgraded, if grudgingly! :)

KTM Group kept buying up smaller outfits, yet not learning anything from what they had acquired. Kinda hard to feel bad about that...
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Triumph absolutely traces its lineage back to the original company.
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IMO - trevj you are getting close to the edge (language and comments) of what’s acceptable on this Forum
 
DavidR8 said:
Triumph absolutely traces its lineage back to the original company.
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So, essentially, Triumph, as a modern "Brand" has about exactly as much of a lineage, as South Bend (now Grizzly) does as a machine tool.

Just another outfit that bought the name, and cashed in on it. "bought the name and Manufacturing rights", is not the same as being the Company that built the Brand! The Company died. Someone came along and bought the supposed 'rights' to use the same name. Not even close to being the same as a continuous history!

While I respect that the outfit that bought the entire Enfield Line and moved it's production to India, kept it's production (at least for a while) oriented towards the same product that the line originally produced, it is still always going to be Enfield India, rather than "Royal Enfield".
 
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