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Cleveland Welding S/N Project...See Page 58 Post 576 for chart

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My CWC Roadmaster

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Here's my contribution. Can anyone tell me what year? Prewar? I got this one at a thrift store in Cleveland. Serial # reads E21768
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I have had this Roadmaster for a while... Assuming its a 51' but I figured I would put it up here and find out because it seems a bit older...:confused:
Serial # J90192 then the normal C with the lil' "w" in it If any one can shed some light on the year that would be great!

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Phil

.... I would love to see a CWC serial number data base built. I have been working on one for myself for some time and plan to put it up on a CWC website I am working on. I...
Phil

how is this going? Not that my projects go any quicker!
 
Roadmaster?

I have had this Roadmaster for a while... Assuming its a 51' but I figured I would put it up here and find out because it seems a bit older...:confused:
Serial # J90192 then the normal C with the lil' "w" in it If any one can shed some light on the year that would be great!


I have what I believe to be a Roadmaster or a Hawthorne with serial no. J 58288 CW. It's my dad's I believe. It's similar to yours, with curved fender braces, same chain ring, except no springer front fork. The head badge is long gone, fenders are peaked. I remember seeing a torpedo light somewhere around the garage that went with this bike. I'm trying to ID mine, too, if anyone has ideas.

One interesting detail on mine is that the dropout adjustment bolts are slot heads not hex like most CWC bikes seem to have. Anyone know what this bike might be?

Thanks in advance!

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My Contribution to the CWC S/N project

Here are my three current CWC bikes.

The first one is a 1937 Badged as a Roadmaster, Ser. # C34333
The second is a 1939 Badged as a Fleet Wing, Ser. # H60729
The third is an NOS 1956 ladies Roadmaster, Ser. # D37227F
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2 more

Here are a couple more. The blue one has had a bad repaint/touch-up at some point. Not really sure what is original but it is badged Royal Master and claims to be from Arno's Bicycle Co in Babylon L.I. Not sure what part of Cleveland that is? Serial number is A08492 Cw

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The red one is a little bit of an odd duck with its straight rear triangle and 2 speed. It's serial number is B68905 53Cw. The Hiawatha badge also has a serial number 45 WGB 24 1053 stamped into the bottom of it (I am unsure about the B it could be a 6 or an 8). I always assumed it was from 1953.

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I have what I believe to be a Roadmaster or a Hawthorne with serial no. J 58288 CW. It's my dad's I believe. It's similar to yours, with curved fender braces, same chain ring, except no springer front fork. The head badge is long gone, fenders are peaked. I remember seeing a torpedo light somewhere around the garage that went with this bike. I'm trying to ID mine, too, if anyone has ideas.

One interesting detail on mine is that the dropout adjustment bolts are slot heads not hex like most CWC bikes seem to have. Anyone know what this bike might be?

Thanks in advance!

I'd go with 1947, maybe into '48. The chain adjusters were replaced with standard hardware store bolts, not actual chain adjusters. It was likely badged Roadmaster or one of the other house badgings for CWC because of the chainring.
 
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