I'm curious about the serial #/letters on the '41 Firestone bikes. The Goodyear Double Eagle/Double Eagle Deluxe aka "Clipper" has a "GY" stamped on the bottom bracket. The girls bike Olan123 posted has a "L1 FCC" with six numbers and a restored Bull Nose I'm looking at has a "OCXXXX" serial #. For those of you that have original Bull Noses could you please post your serial #/letters stamped on the bottom bracket? Do all of the legitimate Firestone bikes have "FCC"? Thanks, Shawn
The Firestone 3-characters F-codes might
not be well documented or understood.
I have a bullnose tank model, with the large side holes in the head, with the Colson date code of G1 for July 1941; and the Firestone 3-characters code “FCC”.
F =
Firestone;
C = year 1941, (A/’39; B/’40);
C = manufacturer
Colson; (H/Huffman; and W/Westfield).
We have also seen a recent 1938 Firestone built by Colson with a simpler “FS” stamp, for
Fire
Stone, and a corresponding Colson “I8” stamp for September 1938.
I believe that the separate Colson date codes really
help to authenticate the similar Firestone codes for other manufacturers.
Some of this Firestone coding information is dispersed among various one-manufacturer threads (probably the
definition of
not well documented); such as for Huffman built Twin-Flexers.
One member who might have understood the Firestone codes, say for Huffman-built models, (FAH, FBH, and FCH), seemed to
deny any 1940 Westfield-built Firestone bicycles (e.g., stamped “FBW”).
I believe that there may be some members who might maintain other websites that better explain the Firestone serial numbers &c., but I could
not find it actually spelled-out on the CABE.