1918 DAYTON Military Bicycle

[Balloontyre]

It looks like the gray is painted over the spoke nipples too. Leading this reader to think the paint was added possibly decades later. The fork and frame do look more like the Westfield and Great Western built double bars.

The HD sprocket looks pretty flat as well.

The original photos of this bike are in billboard resolution, unfortunately I can't upload in that large size.
Here are the fork and chain ring,
Hopefully Captain H can enlighten us.

 

[hoofhearted]

A short time after the 2011 Hartung Auction .. I was contacted by Bob Jameson of Troy, OH. (Bob is a wheelman.)
Bob called and asked me to "help" the winner of the H-D military bicycle (Hartung 2011) as Bob had zero
information to assist the winner when he called Bob. Bob turned over some snapshots of this machine
to me (can't currently lay hands on them .. but they are in my possession).

I called the winner ... offering assistance .. the winner did not pursue any info with any great display of excitement.

...... patric

Note .. Above foto shows a H-D bicycle ... NOT A MILITARY H-D BICYCLE.

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[chitown]

Adverts, Renderings and Pictures

Horse power machine hard at work comparing renderings of the 1918 Dayton Military Model. This photo was sent to Motorcycle Illustrated to show the Dayton Military Model in action. It appears to have a triple crown truss fork. Common for many builders of the day including Davis (Yale had this style fork) . Yet the rendering looks more like a single crown variety.

Is it fair to assume what was drawn wasn't necessarily what went out the factory door? The fact that a photo sent from the Davis factory showing a gentleman in military dress riding a military model Davis with a standard sprocket and not a D-A-Y-T-O-N sprocket. Yet this third advert with the Dayton in the middle of a barrage and sporting the D-A-Y-T-O-N sprocket and cafe style bars instead of the box style.

Interesting to note the finish being listed as olive drab for the frame, guards and hubs and "dull nickle" finish on sprocket and handlebars.

 

[Balloontyre]

GREAT STUFF, Chitown!!!

The cafe bars on drawing VS the box bars in ad picture could very well be reality. If you have patience to sit through hours of war time footage, there are many clips of US Servicemen (Navy or Army) riding bikes. In a recent eye bleeding gaze at footage, there were 2 service men bikes riding together, one with box bars on military model bike, the other with cafe style bars on DIAMOND frame bike.
I dismissed the diamond frame bike as spoils of war, but maybe not???

 

[Balloontyre]

Notice the joint of lower bar as it connects to seat tube, this is different from the fitting on the Columbia and GWM military bikes.
My apologies for the image quality.

 

[Balloontyre]

US official photo

Devil Dogs,
More recon Capt'n H!
Salute

 

[Balloontyre]

Another ad showing Kalifornia or café bars. Ad caption indicated 1918 Columbia

 

[Balloontyre]

Gun Collectors

Cop, on military bike?
A friend says to me " I have an old gun book somewhere, with a cop on a double bar bicycle like that with a mounted firearm"


I said "☆☆☆WHAT☆☆☆"


He's looking for it though his collection of books.

Cop pic from web, Dealership pics Oshkosh WI

 

[Nick-theCut]

Dealership pics are amazing. Motorcycle and Motorbike heaven.

 

[hoofhearted]

Ethernet Image ......