It features a 78-cubic-inch (1,278cc) four-cylinder motor, a three-speed transmission, 27-inch wheels and a 59-inch wheelbase.
Neither the trophy nor the prize was ever claimed.The property of Ace Motor changed hands for the last time in 1927, when it was purchased by the Production of four-cylinder Indian motorcycles would continue until 1942. Henderson was chief engineer, and he again turned to the four-cylinder concept he had used so successfully.When the Ace was introduced in 1920, it was met with favorable reviews. While Excelsior was focusing on beefy, heavyweight motorcycles, Henderson preferred to build lighter and sportier machines, so he left to form his own company in 1919.Henderson and Max Sladkin of Haverford Cycle Co. joined forces and founded the Ace Motor Corp. in Philadelphia.
This 1924 Ace is one of the last machines built by the company. Click here to rate it.
The standard model featured iron pistons, while another $20 got you the Sporting Solo model, with aluminum pistons. It features a 78-cubic-inch (1,278cc) four-cylinder motor, a three-speed transmission, 27-inch wheels and a 59-inch wheelbase.
By 1922 the factory was going strong, and Ace was on stable footing.
The company produced its last machine in 1924 and was eventually sold to Indian in 1927.This 1924 Ace is one of the last machines built by the company. The Roaring ’20s were in full swing, the American Motorcyclist Association had just been formed, and the princely sum of $400 would buy you a powerful, lightweight Ace.Ace was the brainchild of AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer William Henderson, who found himself at creative odds with his employer, the Excelsior Motor Manufacturing and Supply Co. Ace Motor Corporation was a motorcycle manufacturer in operation continuously in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1919 and 1924 and intermittently afterward until 1927. The management of Ace Motor Corporation offered the Ace Speed Trophy and a cash prize to anyone who could break the XP-4's record.
Essentially only one model of the large luxury four-cylinder motorcycle, with slight variations, was made from first to last. It was 1924.
When I ride my restored 1924 Ace motorcycle to places where motorcyclists go, like the Rock Store, a tavern on Mulholland Highway near Malibu, it always gets attention.
The standard model featured iron pistons, while another $20 got you the Sporting Solo model, with aluminum pistons.It is just one of the many historic machines owned by the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio. Essentially only one model of the large luxury four-cylinder motorcycle, with slight variations, was made from first to last. Ace Motor Corporation was a motorcycle manufacturer in continuous operation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1919 and 1924, and intermittently afterward until 1927.
The company even made a name for itself in then-popular long-distance and cross-country contests. Many collectors regard the Ace as the best inline four cylinder motorcycle ever built, and indeed it was certainly the fastest motorcycle …
Ace was to have a brief but mighty run in the four cylinder campaigns of the twenties with Red Wolverton in 1923 setting a speed record of 129.9 MPH aboard a specially built machine and Cannonball Baker completing a record-breaking cross country run, in less than seven days.
He died at the age of 39 in Frankford Hospital without regaining consciousness.Arthur O.
In the fall of 1919, with the support of Max M. Sladkin of Haverford Cycle Co., Henderson started the Ace Motor Corporation in On December 11, 1922, shortly after 11 a.m., William Henderson was hit by a motor vehicle while testing the new Ace Sporting Solo in Philadelphia.