Royal Enfield’s Indian motorbikes are going global

DESPITE THE autumn chill, a group has gathered in front of the Iron Horse Royal Enfield dealership, a small stone building set in the Connecticut hills. A woman sits on a motorcycle, its single-cylinder engine thumping with a distinctive sound. In the window a striking chrome-and-black model looks much like what would have rolled out of Enfield’s original factory in Redditch in the British Midlands in the company’s heyday in the 1950s.