Day Trip: Harley-Davidson’s chrome-plated tour de force

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Category: International Travel

Published on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:15

Written by Fairfax Times

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It’s said that four wheels move the body, but two wheels move the soul. I didn’t really get that until recently, when I took Harley-Davidson’s Steel Toe Tour of its 650,000-square-foot Vehicle Operations Plant in York, Pa.

Harley-Davidson employs state-of-the-art robotics and approximately 1,000 union workers in a streamlined process that turns out Touring, Softail, CVO and Trike models on a single integrated assembly line and produces certain parts — frames, fuel tanks and fenders — for the famed motorcycle maker. READ ON

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