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Hercules Tourist mens bike

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J-C-R

On Training Wheels
Picked up this Hercules bike. I am having a hard time trying to locate info on it. I thought I would be able to locate something with the same decal on the chain guard but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

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Picked up this Hercules bike. I am having a hard time trying to locate info on it. I thought I would be able to locate something with the same decal on the chain guard but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

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Looks like a standard '50's Hercules, original and complete except for the seat and possibly the pedals. Probably has a Hercules hub marked B Type X, and the X will be the last digit of the year the hub was made, like "B Type 5" for 1955.
 
Hercules used that same decal with different names on many different bikes in the '50's. @neighbor posted a good close-up of the decal on a 1954 Hercules Royal Prince on the third page of this thread:

@BobH posted a good close-up of the chain guard decal on his bike on the second page of this thread:

And @usarnie1 posted one the same as yours on the second page of this thread:
 
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