Quotation from bike ..... "The bike in the photo seems to have the top tubes much closer than other examples in the thread."
With regards to WW I ... Great Western military bicycles AND Westfield-Columbia military bicycles
have upper-tubing members closer together than some of the Davis-Dayton and Davis-Harley Davidson
military bicycles.
Both the Dayton and the H-D military models have been observed with a narrow-bar configuration if the
machine has a 3" [+/-] headtube. The Dayton and the H-D machines having a 5" OR 7" [+/-] headtube have
been observed with a wide-bar configuration.
The Great Western and the Columbia machines are painted in an olive-drab recipe for paint that could change
from bicycle to bicycle. The two, pigmented components of the OD paint on the GW and the Columbia were
yellow-ochre AND black ... mixed in ever-changing ratios.
The paint on the Dayton military AND the H-D military has been observed to be lowered-gloss black. A few Naval-
Yard specimens have been observed to have been over-painted in what the U.S. Navy calls Haze Grey (Gray ?).
..... patric
Will edit this info this weekend and add fotos. Also ... don't blame me for that
Haze Gray reference ... that is pure
Admiral Balloontyre (Ivo) at his best.
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