Long Tankers! How many are there??

[bike]

Something to remember- there are lots of brands say sams co/rollfast elgin/mercury----- but only a few manufacturers ie dp harris,shelby, huffman etc

 

[tripple3]

Something to remember- there are lots of brands say sams co/rollfast elgin/mercury----- but only a few manufacturers ie dp harris,shelby, huffman etc

I think D.P. Harris is a distributer of Snyder built bikes...or at least the same mfgr that is called both by us bike folk....

This bike originally came with a Big tank. The tank on it is from the 50's
Snyder, Huffman, Murray, Westfield and Shelby Big Tank Mfgrs....That I know of...still learning....

 

[DonChristie]

Double Trouble!

 

[Freqman1]

1938 Shelby Speedline Airflo, 1937 Dayton (Huffman built) Super Streamline, and 1938 Firestone (Huffman built) Twin Flex. V/r Shawn

 

[cyclingday]

Even though the original post specifically asked for bikes with tanks that stretched past the seat tube.
Some extended tank models only stretched past the head tube.
The Schwinn Aerocycle being one of them and the first of it's kind and the trendsetter that kicked off the styling wars that followed.

1934 Schwinn Aerocycle 1941 Colson Firestone Cruiser.


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[MrAustralia]

Who are the manufacturers?

Something to remember- there are lots of brands say sams co/rollfast elgin/mercury----- but only a few manufacturers ie dp harris,shelby, huffman etc

Hi all,

GREAT START!!! There are more out there than I thought!

That was another question I had.

How many of the long tanks are actually “the same bike” as in manufactured by the same company, but with a different badge on it.
Snyder = Sam Sco, Rollfast….. any others?

Murray = Elgin 5 Bar, Firestone pilot, and the 37 Mercury (as in this post) any others here?

Keep them coming guys, really cool!

 

[bike]

any hardware store or bike shop tire store department store etc could have custom badges made so the possibilities are endless -one reason badge collecting is a fun sport!

 

[larock65]

1941 Peerless

Here's one I had for a bit. Original finish 41 Peerless.​

 

[jd56]

Here is a 46 stamped fork Huffman that I rebuilt and added this tank. Was advised that this was the correct tank for the frame (so I bought it and added it).
This is a Western Flyer badged Huffman. No idea what model name though.
This is my only example of a "Long Tank"....and wished I had more [emoji102]

It's all about the Tanklights!!

How did I run out of room so fast?

 

[Oldnut]

Long tanks

A few of the huffmans

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