1939 Schwinn Cycle Truck

[Fifthcenturycheese]

The paint on the USPS Cycle Trucks varied considerably, there was no standard across the board specifications. Here is what the Mesa AZ USPS CT's looked like thru the 60's and 70's. Nothing fancy, just blue with maybe some white trim detailing and panel markings.

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Well, that's a start!

 

[Rusty Klunker]

Do you know of an existing image of the red, white and blue Post Office Dept. paint scheme with Mr. Zip?

Not a cycletruck truck but USPS used a three wheeled buggy in housing tracts around here. I'll take a guess they were cushmans.
They used these till about 70 and they were blue to about the window line, a red stripe then white above.
When they went to jeeps they had the same color scheme then changed to all white with a red and blue stripe.

 

[Rusty Klunker]

Not sure how you would incorporate this to a CT but this looks accurate including color for what we had 60's-70's.

 

[GTs58]

Not sure how you would incorporate this to a CT but this looks accurate including color for what we had 60's-70's.

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Our mailman drove one of those out to the subdivisions with the cycle truck strapped to it. Then he loaded his cycle truck and rode from house to house to house. each mailbox was mounted on the house at the front corner off the driveway. Older section of town. At the newer subdivisions you were required to have a mailbox at the street on a post at the sidewalk and that saved him a lot of time delivering out of the Jeep.

 

[Fifthcenturycheese]

Our mailman drove one of those out to the subdivisions with the cycle truck strapped to it. Then he loaded his cycle truck and rode from house to house to house. each mailbox was mounted on the house at the front corner off the driveway. Older section of town. At the newer subdivisions you were required to have a mailbox at the street on a post at the sidewalk and that saved him a lot of time delivering out of the Jeep.

Mail box at the street is called a curbside delivery.

 

[GTs58]

Mail box at the street is called a curbside delivery.

Walmart and Lowes has curbside delivery too.

 

[Fritz Katzenjammer]

A bit off topic but worth a laugh…

A few years back I was visiting a GM plant which was having an issue with a part supplied by my employer. I noted all of the maintenance and engineering types were wheeling about on a weird assortment of bicycles, everything from cruisers to road bikes. Seems the company was buying up damage goods from a large chain store and providing them to the employees who needed them for moving about the huge facility quickly. The engineer with whom I was working had a cute little pink girl’s high rise with a nice white basket decorated with flowers on the front. When I asked if he took any razzing from the other guys about it he said he did but added that he was the only guy there who had never had his bike swiped. He had chosen his ride very carefully and very well.

 

[cyclingday]

Does anybody know, what the timeline for the USPS use of Cycle Trucks was?
Our mail delivery here in Southern California used a Cycle Truck when I was a kid, but I don’t remember how long that lasted.
It seemed like those little Jeeps showed up, not long after that, until they became obsolete, and now they are using a nice delivery van.
It typically, took longer than it should have to convert to the van.
By the time they did, those Jeeps were getting pretty long in the tooth, and they were totally inadequate for the amount of volume that was needed by that time.
There’s no way, a Cycle Truck could even cover half a block these days.
It just shows you how rural and sparsely populated we were back in the late 50’s & 60’s.
Ahh!
The good old days!
Lol!

 

[Schwinn Sales West]

We have had a very interesting and informative discussion about "all things, Cycles Trucks". I have enjoyed reading all of your impute.

But I want to apologize to the original poster @GroodyBros for derailing his original post. You have restored another old CT, enjoy riding it.

John

 

[SirMike1983]

Not sure how you would incorporate this to a CT but this looks accurate including color for what we had 60's-70's.

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Those Jeep DJs were neat old vehicles. I remember the old Jeep DJ that delivered to my house was all white, except for a tri-color stripe just below the windows. They were replaced by the Grumman LLVs around here. But the Jeep had more character to it.