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@Dazed & Confused
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@TieDye @Mr. Monkeyarms @JLF @Balloonoob because you were kind enough to 'Like' post 14, which I got wrong, and you may like to read the update below.
Thanks for the most interesting photo's (to me!) I've seen so far this year.
Firstly, I apologise for giving you wrong information in Post 14 (Quoted below, because I can't edit it). This reminds me not to be an expert in things, because there's always exceptions.
The frame is H11, which I confirm means it was made November 1941.
The serial number is, as you said, G9241. This caused me a problem because, as I said in post 14, G is 1942, and the numbers start at G17434. Looking further back, it turns out that 1941 was an unusual year because of Pearl Harbor. Westfield used numbers F5000 to F213132, and also G5000 to G17433, which covers your bike. So it was built at the end of 1941, and is the only one I've seen like that.
I'm guessing that Westfield started using G early, because for a time, bicycle production shut down after Pearl Harbor, and restarted when rationing of bicycles started. I think that they may have used G to indicate bicycles built after rationing came in, to prevent people fiddling the system.
Again, thanks for putting these pictures up.
Best Regards,
Adrian
Post 14 (Wrong)