Early Paramount serial numbers

[Trainman999]

Early Schwinn Paramount serial number questions?
Are there known A serial numbers below A145?
Are there known serial numbers between 1 and 123 with oval head lugs?
Blogs or sites that may have discussion on pre 1959 paramounts?
I am making a list of the 1938-1959 bikes that can be found on the internet
Thanks for your help

 

[schwinnderella]

There used to be this but it does not seem to be active now.
http://chainedrevolution.com/registry/schwinn_paramount.aspx

 

[rhenning]

Go to Waterford Precision Cycle's web site they have quite a bit of info on early Paramounts and can do research on serial numbers for a price. This is the other good site. Roger
http://www.kurtkaminer.com/TH_paramountregistry.html

 

[Trainman999]

schwinnderella Used the 80 bikes on that list as a starting point. Google found approximatle 120 more most with pictures
rhenning I believe Waterfords research covers 1959 to 1979 bikes. kurtkaminer site also starts with the 1959 bikes and goes forward. Not much help withe 1938-1959 bikes

 

[GTs58]

I have this saved but not sure if it does you any good. One A serial in 1959.

 

[rhenning]

Trainman999 at one time both the sites I listed had a way to get to the full site that GTs58 just show one of the pages from. Not sure how to get there now. Roger

 

[cyclingday]

This serial number seems to indicate a 1939 build, but all of the details suggest that it's a first generation bike.
The bike was originally purchased in Santa Monica, California.
So my guess is, that the SM stamped in the bottom bracket shell has something to do with that.

Another early Sports Tourist model showed up at our annual swap meet last month, that had a serial number in the A800's.
It had the later rectangular head tube lug design.
We figured that bike to possibly be a 1940ish
It doesn't narrow it down too much, because of the 200 number difference, but at least we know the change in lug style was some where between A 635 and A 800.

 

[Trainman999]

cyclingday Thanks for your info and the serial # of your beautiful Paramount. On my list A676 and below have the early oval lugs. A681 and above have the rectangular

 

[detroitbike]

Of the Paramounts I have
These are some of the #'s of a few I can get to at the moment :

460 -----green Ladies
P158
P31
A153
A408
A854
A868
290
297
A237
P224
432 --- the red one on the list

 

[detroitbike]

the other # 432 on the list was chrome Tourist model with a 3 speed cyclo conversion kit on it .
I saw it here in Detroit. Lady thought it was worth a fortune .
It had ball ends and I believe it was a 'P' bike serial number -- P432