Dayton bicycle

[Jeff Benson]

I have not found one yet.
The family said that their Granddad had it for a Long time, before the 50's, and the seat was replaced.

 

[Mercian]

Hi Jeff,

The numbers are not easy to find. Here's one as an example, the second photo in in post 46.

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Almost there! Original od green bars with new coke bottle grips. Thanks to Krakatoa - great way to finish it off. Waiting on some sweet pedals - should be here by the end of the week.

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Best Regards,

Adrian

 

[Mercian]

Hi All,

further investigation with @Jeff Benson , and the frame also has a 3 and 1943 stamped on the bb, so there is no doubt it started life as a military frame.

You can also see the classic 'rough welding' of the frame seen on later military bikes, when the frame was gas welded and not brazed to save copper/tin/nickle.

They are not normally fitted with integral spider.

H157068 is towards the end of the last contract of Huffman G519 made.

Best Regards,

Adrian

 

[bike]

were some civilian bikes made with mil construction practices? does not seem to be a mil bike-no MG number...
love the baby spider!

 

[Mercian]

were some civilian bikes made with mil construction practices? does not seem to be a mil bike-no MG number...
love the baby spider!

Hi @bike

The MF and MG serial numbers only apply to Westfield Columbia built G519 bikes.

This is a slightly rarer Huffman Dayton G519. The numbers for these start with a H. Also having the year (1942, 1943 or 1944), and a code number 677 on the early curved downtube, and 3 on the later straight downtube frames is unique to the Huffman frames produced for the military.

Post 14 is the last list I released on the wartime Huffman numbers. I really should update this now.

Huffman Dayton G519 Frame Numbers | Military Bicycles

Dear All, In addition to the Westfield Columbia G519 details I've been collecting, I've also collected as many extant Huffman Dayton G519 details from the internet as I could find. There follows a list of them, which is partly an experiment to find the best way of posting and managing a longer...

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It's an interesting question as to whether the civilian bikes of the same period have the same welds. I'm away from my master reference list this weekend, but will check and report back.

Best Regards,

Adrian

Edit, I removed the word 'always', for accuracy, because a small number of early Huffman G519's are prefixed D, as stated by Huffmanbill, below.

 

[HUFFMANBILL]

Not all Huffman G519's have the H prefix letter to the serial number. The early framed curved down tube models used the D prefix letter to the serial number.

Regards,
Bill

 

[Mercian]

@HUFFMANBILL is correct, the very first Huffman Dayton G519 from Jan 1942 are marked D before the serial number. These still have the the date 1942 and code 677 on the bb.

In the same way, the very earliest Westfield Columbia G519's have MF in front of the serial number.

Best Regards,

Adrian

 

[Euphman06]

So what do you think its story is? Never made it to olive drab and fitted for civ use after the war or someone just restored it after the war to look like a normal bike?

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[Jeff Benson]

No Idea.