A Superior? True or False

[GTs58]

Thanks,always cool to learn something new. I didnt know they made bikes during the war,I thought Columbia and Huffman had the exclusive on that

You haven't seen this then. It's on Findley's site.

 

[Miq]

It seems like people allot all the war time production to cycle trucks, but we've seen many nice War Time New Worlds with blackout parts and war time crank dates. Here's a few sweet victory bikes from the CABE:
@Jim Barnard

@3-speeder

@koolkatz

eBay

@Cooper S.

@Arfsaidthebee

@bikepaulie

@Kramai88

probably missing some other ones we've seen...

 

[PCHiggin]

Thanks,always cool to learn something new. I didnt know they made bikes during the war,I thought Columbia and Huffman had the exclusive on that

You haven't seen this then. It's on Findley's site.

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Thanks,No,I havent seen this and I've been on that site many times. Didnt realize much more info. there

 

[ccdc.1]

Interesting that several of the war-time New Worlds pictured have the Superior-style fork crown (with the typical NW fork dropouts are the stamped rather than brazed). More evidence that the eBay bike was maybe a straight New World from the war-time era, and later updated.

 

[GTs58]

Interesting that several of the war-time New Worlds pictured have the Superior-style fork crown (with the typical NW fork dropouts are the stamped rather than brazed). More evidence that the eBay bike was maybe a straight New World from the war-time era, and later updated.

If this eBay New World was a war time frame it would have had the electro forged head tube and tube attachments at the head tube.

Here's an early war time New World head, everything is in Miq's thread posted above. J series serial number on this one. Also, a few earlier pieces in that thread have the same fork.

 

[GTs58]

1939 Catalog

 

[3-speeder]

Interesting machine but why scratch out the serial number? I don't understand that. You can add the mod date without carving up the sn.

 

[PCHiggin]

Interesting machine but why scratch out the serial number? I don't understand that. You can add the mod date without carving up the sn.

Could have been stolen long ago

 

[3-speeder]

Could have been stolen long ago

Hah! That was the first thing that I thought

 

[rennfaron]

Interesting machine but why scratch out the serial number? I don't understand that. You can add the mod date without carving up the sn.

Could have been stolen long ago

Hah! That was the first thing that I thought

You really want to hide something by obliterating that serial like that.