ORIG HARLEY FACTORY NEWS BULLETIN

“THE 1948 NATIONAL HARLEY-DAVIDSON DEALERS CONFERENCE”

#1047   DATED   DEC 15, 1947

ONLY SENT TO DEALERS

“BEST CONFERENCE IN HARLEY-DAVIDSON HISTORY !”

(GORDON DAVIDSON OUTLINED 1948 PRODUCTION NUMBERS)

(ARTHUR DAVIDSON OUTLINED HARLEY-DAVIDSON SALES POLICY

IN STRAIGHT-FORWARD TALK THAT PULLED NO PUNCHES)

(CHIEF ENGINEER Wm. J. HARLEY CAME TO THE PLATFORM, THE AUDIENCE SENSED THAT THEY WOULD BE IN FOR BIG NEWS…)

(PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. DAVIDSON TOOK THE PLATFORM AND, AMID GREAT APPLAUSE,

ANNOUNCED THAT HARLEY-DAVIDSON ACQUIRED THE GREAT BUILDING WE WERE IN FOR $1,500,000.

HE STATED MORE THAN $3,500,000. WAS BEING INVESTED IN H-D SINCE V-J DAY) 

 OEM PART, NOT A REPOP OR COPY

FACTORY TO DEALER CORRESPONDENCE