JC Higgins is a Sears bike. They sold bikes from many sources over the years. I read the other day the last year for the name was 1963. No doubt Sears wanted to compete with British bikes and just imported some real ones. If you search around for number stampings, you might even find a 3 digit number that refers to the maker, followed by the catalog number, which in some cases may allow you to find it in an old Sears catalog and narrow down the year that way. Lists of the 3 digit codes for the manufacturers Sears contracted with can be found online. Sears definitely had numbers like that stamped in their American built bikes, and probably this British bike too. The numbers were used for sourcing spare parts, and can be found on many products they sold, not just bikes.
