Royal Enfield (England)

The Enfield Cycle Company Limited
Company typePublic Listed Company
IndustryMotorcycles, Guns, Bicycles
Founded1901
FounderAlbert Eadie and Robert Walker Smith
Defunct1971
FateDefunct, Name still in use by Eicher.
SuccessorRoyal Enfield of India
Headquarters
Redditch, Worcestershire
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United Kingdom
ProductsRoyal Enfield Clipper, Crusader, Bullet, Interceptor, WD/RE, Super Meteor

Royal Enfield was a brand name under which The Enfield Cycle Company Limited of Redditch, Worcestershire, England, sold motorcycles, bicycles, lawnmowers and stationary engines which it manufactured. Enfield Cycle Company also used the brand name "Enfield" without the "Royal". Later in 1994, Eicher Motors, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing company, acquired full ownership of the company. The first Royal Enfield motorcycle was built in 1901. The Enfield Cycle Company's Royal Enfield Bullet is the longest-lived motorcycle design in history.

Royal Enfield's spare parts operation was sold to Velocette in 1967, which benefited from the arrangement for three years until its closure in early 1971. Enfield's remaining motorcycle business was acquired by Norton Villiers in 1967, and the business eventually closed in 1978.

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