Hi All,
it's been a while since I did the tables above, so I started working on updated versions of the Columbia and Huffman G519 serial number lists.
At about the same time, New Mexico Brant asked for some information on civilian Huffmans of the same period, which I hadn't collected first time round, so I have produced a new table for all Huffmans from 1942 to 45.
Below is my latest draft update for all the wartime Huffman numbers that I could find. Frames in bold are civilian, the rest are military.
If you have any further details you'd like me to include, please let me know.
Including the civilian bikes has added to the knowledge of the military bikes too.
From the table, where the fork dates are known, they follow well with the order of the frame numbers.
Bearing in mind the limited data available, the civilian bikes tend to outline the three known Huffman military contracts quite well. The numbers don't fully match, but it's rare to find wartime contracts that do. (The Columbia ones are a headache I've still not resolved). The implication of the 'Approx number in Block' in comparison to the numbers claimed delivered in the 'Ordnance Receipts' is that during contracts 1 and 3 they may have also been building civilian bikes that we've not seen examples of yet. By the end of the third contract there is one civilian bike on the list above with a frame number before the alst G519 in the block, which may support this idea.
The second contract is 2000 below the number delivered, but we don't know the true start and end numbers, so it looks like this period was substantially G519 and little else.
These are only opinions, and I'm still thinking about this. I would welcome any thoughts you have on it.
For those just interested in G519, here is the same list without the civilian bikes:
There are 32 bikes listed, an increase of 10 over the previous list.
Best Regards,
Adrian