Mumbai police bikes

This article claims the Mumbai police force will be outfitted with new bikes based on the Royal Enfield Classic 350 customized by Road Rage Custom Builds (careful with the link, it's noisy!). It is unclear if the picture is a real picture or an artists' conception...

Firefighting

We have discussed firefighting Royal Enfields in the past. They are still being used (or reintroduced) in New Delhi and Bangalore today. Here is one of the earliest mentions, from October 20th 1913. The 6hp sidecar, for which nothing was impossible, could carry four firefighters and a length of hose.

And if you think those pictures were just staged, here is news from October 15th 1914,

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More on the new plant

This time a video. Wonderful to see the tanks painted by robots but pinstriped still by hand. I wonder how are they going to keep up with the volume?

New plant

The picture shows The Man himself rolling the first unit. Here are some links (1, 2, 3) to articles about the new Royal Enfield plant at Oragadam, and, courtesy of David Blasco of royalenfields.com, the press release. Ipad readers may need to click on the link to see it.

Press release Royal Enfield new Oragadam plant