Reorganized in November 1891, ‘The Eadie Manufacturing Company Limited’. Eadie got a lucrative contract to supply precision rifle parts to the Royal Small Arms Factory in
Enfield,
Middlesex, U.K.. To celebrate the contract, Eadie and Smith decided to call the first new design of bicycle, the ‘
Enfield’.
A new company was created to market these new design bicycles called ‘The
Enfield Manufacturing Company Limited’. By October 1892, the
Enfield bikes were announced to the public. The following year the word Royal (after the Royal Small Arms Company) was added and thus Royal
Enfield began. Then in 1893 the Royal
Enfield trademark ‘Made Like a Gun’ appeared. Britain was caught up in a patriotic fervor and the slogan caught the spirit of the time. In 1899 the first mechanical vehicle was advertised by
Enfield Cycle Company. It was available in both tricycle and
quadricycle form, powered by a De Dion 1.5 hp engine. In 1909, Royal
Enfield took the biking world by surprise. At the motorcycle show that year, they displayed a small 2 1/4 hp V twin-engine machine built in the Swiss tradition, which ran very well. A slightly larger model was developed in 1911. A 2 3/4 hp, with all chain drive incorporating the well-known
Enfield two-speed gear. This model stood up until 1914. he First World War began in 1914. Royal
Enfield was called on to supply motorcycles to the British War Department and even awarded a contract to build bikes for the Imperial Russian Government during the same period. The machine gun combination and the 6hp stretcher-carrying outfit were some of the models produced for the war purpose.
Enfield started using its own engines - a 225cc two-stroke single and a 425cc V-twin about this time. Post-war, it produced a larger 976cc twin and continued to produce the two-speed 225L until 1929. In 1917, the officers of the Women’s Police Force were issued with a 2 1/4 RE 2 stroke. In 1931 a four-valve, single-cylinder was introduced, and christened 'Bullet' in 1932. It had an inclined engine and an exposed valve gear. It was then that the first use was made of the now famous Bullet name. Longer stroke, four-valve head exposed valves and heavily finned crankcase were the features that ran from 1932 until the end of 1934.
The 1939 Bullet 350 kick-started the post-war models. They used two rocker boxes for the first time. This enabled better gas flow and consequently higher volumetric efficiency. Royal
Enfield’s own designed and manufactured telescopic front fork placed the
Redditch marquee at the very forefront of motorcycle design. The biggest advancement introduced by the new Bullet was its swinging arm rear suspension system and hydraulic damper units themselves. In 1947
Enfield made a J2 - the first model with a telescopic front end, followed in 1948 by a 500cc twin (
Enfield's 25
bhp answer to the Triumph Speed Twin), which stayed in production until 1958.
A new company was created to market these new design bicycles called ‘The Enfield Manufacturing Company Limited’. By October 1892, the Enfield bikes were announced to the public. The following year the word Royal (after the Royal Small Arms Company) was added and thus Royal Enfield began. Then in 1893 the Royal Enfield trademark ‘Made Like a Gun’ appeared. Britain was caught up in a patriotic fervor and the slogan caught the spirit of the time. In 1899 the first mechanical vehicle was advertised by Enfield Cycle Company. It was available in both tricycle and quadricycle form, powered by a De Dion 1.5 hp engine. In 1909, Royal Enfield took the biking world by surprise. At the motorcycle show that year, they displayed a small 2 1/4 hp V twin-engine machine built in the Swiss tradition, which ran very well. A slightly larger model was developed in 1911. A 2 3/4 hp, with all chain drive incorporating the well-known Enfield two-speed gear. This model stood up until 1914. he First World War began in 1914. Royal Enfield was called on to supply motorcycles to the British War Department and even awarded a contract to build bikes for the Imperial Russian Government during the same period. The machine gun combination and the 6hp stretcher-carrying outfit were some of the models produced for the war purpose. Enfield started using its own engines - a 225cc two-stroke single and a 425cc V-twin about this time. Post-war, it produced a larger 976cc twin and continued to produce the two-speed 225L until 1929. In 1917, the officers of the Women’s Police Force were issued with a 2 1/4 RE 2 stroke. In 1931 a four-valve, single-cylinder was introduced, and christened 'Bullet' in 1932. It had an inclined engine and an exposed valve gear. It was then that the first use was made of the now famous Bullet name. Longer stroke, four-valve head exposed valves and heavily finned crankcase were the features that ran from 1932 until the end of 1934. 
The 1939 Bullet 350 kick-started the post-war models. They used two rocker boxes for the first time. This enabled better gas flow and consequently higher volumetric efficiency. Royal Enfield’s own designed and manufactured telescopic front fork placed the Redditch marquee at the very forefront of motorcycle design. The biggest advancement introduced by the new Bullet was its swinging arm rear suspension system and hydraulic damper units themselves. In 1947 Enfield made a J2 - the first model with a telescopic front end, followed in 1948 by a 500cc twin (Enfield's 25bhp answer to the Triumph Speed Twin), which stayed in production until 1958.
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