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there is a historical bicycles of japan not sure how to reach then

Looks Westfield to me. Not schwinn Not Huffmann.

It has a williams chain ring so it has a date code on the back side. Double plate fork crown! nice .

1 inch - some roller some in block.

nice bike. we have one also but haven ridden in some time. a well respected tandem builder

CCM Road racers only had the rear brake and came with a slide in BB unit. The BB unit is a Bayless Wiley unite. Note the oiler hole that lines up with the oiler fitting on the frame

Why I waited I'll never know why! But worth the wait. I'll finish the parts in what the Brits called "Alweather" finish---Painting the chrome parts black. I really don't know if CCM offered their bikes with that finish but it's a cheeper way than chroming and looks good too.

Well took me over 10 years but I did get it painted today. I'll try and get it together and a photo or two when the paint cures some

says so on the back.

It is a 30s or later Autocycle not a bicycle with an attachment. Collin on this site would know more on Autocycles.There use to be a british group on them

I have a 40's New World with three piece BB. Unlike the rest here I've stripped this frame down to bare metal so here's how they went together. Both Huffmann and schwinn used fillit for connecting their tubes. Schwinn used Brass and Huffmann used mild steel. The war effort limited brass so...

no paint codes but I do have a 1/4 pint of Ashes of Roses 1954

Based on the derailleur the hammered fender one is pre war

Can't say if this is a Hendee decal or not. they are foil backed so you can only see the paper side and that side has the decal manufacture's name. Though of putting them on a Rat Rod but then I though of a painted steel sheet and frame them---but sure as I did a Silver Queen would turn...

Did Centaur make a girls version called "Silver Queen" I have some very old varnish fix decals out of England one set is Silver Queen? Or maybe a totally different brand of bicycle. Not to hi jack your thread just if you run across anything in your research.

ask the guys up in Antique pre 1933 bikes. this is a crescent bike

Pre war cyclo gears had the large cut out the post war cut outs were in the "C" shape so definitely pre war.

It's a real pierce. can't say pre 1917 or post 1917.

from the bcc book

Page from 1940 catalog (which was printed in 39 or about the time your bike was built)

Have 1940 pages if that would help

Lools like williams chainrings if so they have a date code stamp on the back side

Interesting,we both are out of San Antonio. Thanks for the link very interesting bike

I found it. A Umberto Dei. This logo was also stamped on the very rusty cranks(both sides and one side more readable that the other). I think it may be a 1946 frame but that's a guess---it could be a 60s for all I know---but it has model39 Universal brakes.

If you look close you can see a skip tooth chain ring or track ring below the lettering. I think it's Italian

Your only seeing part of that photo, it's much bigger. And the men holding the bikes are Pinkertons

The cyclo is pre war as they changed the cut out hole to a "C" shape post war

Does look like a Sturmey archer Tri-coaster hub. I don't think Tri-Coasters have date codes but they are grouped by the sever designs.

If you can find it still on the web years ago their was a photo showing women assembling theses bikes at the Little Rock Ar. AMF bicycle factory

That Star of David sprocket was used on some 1915 sears.

I have the histories of many in the B.C.C. before Raleigh. I have Bartleet's Bicycle Book. Most of the interest is in the hand Made bicycles such as Claud Butler etc.

No tires made today for those rims. You can swap them out with 26x1&3/8 rims.

neat thing about those bikes is it's very easy to turn one into a 3 speed fixed gear.

AB = 1939 http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Williams/Williams_nmbrs.htm

Check the back side of the chainring for a date code. http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/builders/bertrand-builders-griffith.html

Got this several years ago.

700s are 28" tires. Sew up or glue on 700s will work If you can find a set that doesn't have spikes like tufo double diamonds they might be what you want

This style of badge I think were pre 1920. You will see this style used on mead up till about 1916 or so and other makes also. After 1920 badges seemed to change to a seem ornate style.

I have what I'm told is 1900-1903 . not even close. these are pre 1900

Judging from the steer tube it looks to be a tall frame.

Cr18s do come in 40 hole--36 and 32 also I believe. You might have to do some searching to find them

I believe your correct. the mid or late teens badge has a sprocket cut around the edge that the 1920s badge did not

Thanks for your help.. what parts will bend so I can pay extra attention? The shifter levers. If you compare them with later versions levers you will see they are thinner.

first gen open C shifters. careful they bend easily. those are very nice

I've seen those cut-out threaded BBs cups on Crescents. And the low end Swedish crescents of the 70s were still using them.

Those LeFol fenders make for a very pretty bike

do you have the sears number on the bike. is it one number or two? Sears used a code for their suppliers.

Nickel Plating must have been an eye catching kind of thing. I've seen a lot of nickel or chrome bikes in many different brands. I have a pierce nickel racer of about 1936.

Look forward to seeing it on the tweed ride

Cabe rubber for the tyres(it's an English bike) is measured in Penny nickel quarter size---or some such size in relation to coins. Ask the wheelmen I'm sure one of them know. That would make it easer matching the rim to the correct coin as a gauge .