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Harman & Collins

          Harman & Collins For Vintage Motorcycle & Automotive
              The Late Kenny Harman & Clifford " Cliff" Collins
               over 1000 vintage profiles Both stock and performance

             Clifford Collins a Graduate Engineer made racing cams for
              Mickey Thompson-Bud Hare - Johnson Motors JOMO cams
                 Art Sparks racing Triumphs & BSA's - A.J. Lewis's Triumph

We own the Assets of H & C and intellectual property. How do you say?

                  A History OF HARMAN & COLLINS INC.
                          BY CRAIG ABE LOCKWOOD AND HARVEY JAMES CRANE 7-6-94
                                   THIS INFORMATION WAS SUPPLIED BY PERSONAL INTERVIEWS WITH HARVEY J. CRANE

WITH BOTH KENNY HARMAN , CLIFF COLLINS & HARVEY J. CRANE (Bubba) BEFORE THEIR DEATHS.

Kenny Harman, co-founder of Harman and Collins ground his first
camshaft in 1931. He did not say if he was working for himself or a company. But we have discovered that he ground camshafts for George Riley! Riley was well known during the early days of racing for building racing equipment for the Ford Model T and Model A engines. Riley started His business in 1919! Cliff Collins ground his first camshaft, independently of Kenny Harman in 1942
Cliff was then employed by Kenner Engines (aircraft engines) and his first camshafts where for the Kenner aircraft engine.

Kenny Harman and Cliff Collins started Harman & Collins
( H & C ) in 1945 behind a service station in Alhambra, California.
Kenny worked full at H&C and Cliff later cams to work full time in 1948 when they moved into a new building. That same year the company was Incorporated.
Due to polices differences between Kenny and Cliff, Cliff bought out Kenny's stock in the corporation on Nov. 15, 1950. Cliff ran the business and do to cash flow problems , merged H&C into Paul Schiefer's company (Schiefer Clutches & Flywheels) in late 1961.

At the time of the merger, Cliff sold sold the rights, business and two cam grinding machines for manufacturing the Harman & Collins line of Motorcycle cams to Gary Robinson who was an ex employee of the Harman & Collins company.

Only after a year or so , Cliff left Paul Schiefer and started his own camshaft grinding business again, specializing in roller camshafts with customers such as Mickey Thompson Enterprises. Mickey later sold his right to these roller camshafts to Ed Iskenderian and signed a camshaft non-compete agreement with Ed.

Much More a little bit later!

Hard-faced and Camshaft Re-Grinding Services

Please don't ask what with Weld with we won't tell You !! for the last time.
               For all Vintage Motorcycle Engine rebuilding
         Ariel 4 , BSA , Indian , Harley, Cushman , Indian Verticals ,Vincent
          to name only a few that we have done.

Most all work is done seasonal and by appointment and scheduling.

New Triumph and BSA Camshafts coming
this coming spring 2021

           For Grind number Identification and Engine Re Building
             Please TEXT us
              303-814-1709

Our Story of Sorts :

We do not sell new or used motorcycles, nor build custom bikes. We do not sell tires, do wheel balancing or oil changes. There are places that already do this type of work and we will be happy to help in referring you to a reputable shop to suit your needs. We rebuild engines and perform Custom Engine machining on engine parts, cases, Cylinder heads and sell new engine parts for old cycles. Although our stock is primarily limited to mechanical and engine parts, we can usually get most non stocking parts within a few days Depending Availability.
There are many definitions of “engine building”. There are also several price ranges for such work. There will always be someone who will charge less or more money to do the same type of service. The real value lies in the knowledge, skill, tools, experience of the builder, quality of finish, and the ability to warranty the work done. We understand that an engine failure can cost more than the parts…it can result in wasted time, physical injury, and sometimes embarrassment. We can help whether your engine is for a restoration, custom, or racing machine. We also blueprint engines, with complete documentation of specifications.

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Being able to have many contacts in the Industry I was able along with my wife since 1994 on occasions would travel to Florida and spend a few days or a week to be studying under "Harvey J. Crane" for over 16+ years and was in contact with him every week till his passing and have developed several new computer generated cam lobe prof

My cams have been used with success from Pro stock to Street and our cam plate masters for our cam-grinders as well of some our mas-production cams are made on Landis 3L CNC By "Andrews Products" to our design Data= A lot of lines of data - We do not copy cams here. Nor do we ask Andrew's Products to Copy someone else's cam for us as other do. But if customer has something to reproduce and mostly optimize that lobe for themselves that need copying we will do that ...........................Now lets back up a little....................................Being able to work under & together with, whom I considered at the time a growing Legend & now Mentor "Dema" Elgin & Gary Lewis. It was after first closing down my 2nd automotive machine shop I was over at Elgin's Machine Shop across town from where I was in Redwood City talking to former Student's of the De Anza Hi-Performance engine class, Ted & Chris, who bought the the engine side of Elgin's Machine Shop @ the so Dema could presume his interest in the camshaft business . That was the day Dema Elgin Dema walked in & knowing me and that I had my own machine shop in the area prior ask if I ever operated a cam-grinder -I said quote "does it have a on and off switch" ? Well I was grinding racing cams for his customers locally and nationally including B.C Gerolamy David Finch SCCA Champion & many other SCCA customers and so many other top notch engine builders also that I had known for many years - that same day also seeing a other icon I knew well was "John De Long" of De Long racing cams. John was well known in the bay area for his designs. I knew many guys I did machining for where using John's grinds back in the day. Along with working with & helping Dema Elgin at De Anza collage @ nite along with Gary Lewis the Dean of Automotive Technology in the high performance engine class in thru the mid 80's at which time finally decided too and went on a sabbatical from the industry. But still doing automotive performance engines while working closely with Rex Hutchinson as well as always staying in touch with Dema for many years doing business with him when I needed . ( "never burn your bridges as you might need one to cross a obstacle in your life" )

Before deciding to go into the cam business in 1994 a quick phone call & with the help of Purchasing my first cam grinder from Dema Elgin I was able and started doing Trimpuh BSA and Harley camshafts selling cams to Latus H-D Cape Fear H-D Foster H-D Sun H-D Avalanche H-D Salt Lake H-D racing and many many Others like Steve Allstaedt Racing whom worked directly with Jim Fuelling on the original 4 valve Harley head still doing engines to this day. maybe more later.......................... ( Gary Lewis now retired was A starting member of the AERA® who published Automotive Machining and Engine Repair which is still used today for training and certification )

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