arthur davidson, i think, was really critical to the company's that he d success in was the person who took on the started traveling around the country and signing up dealers and setting up an network.ealer he real task for harley-davidson was to convince people that this thing, this new making, is e're really good, economical, reliable, family transportation. the turn of the 20th century, f you were moving in anything other than a train, you were out in the elements. a horse. horse and buggy, an automobile, a motorcycle, an irplane, everything was open cockpit. and it was all new and it wasn't the automobile was going to become kind of the favored form of transportation you got doors and windows and a roof. for the first 15 years of the harley-davidson motor company hey were really focusing on getting people to accept these vehicles as the way that families are going to get around. we had side wars. you could put a couple of kids in. of a challenging sales pitch there for a little while but it was exciting enough that, you know, the motorcycle was really embraced harley-davidson was o