Info & history for "the Fowler"

[mike cates]

CABERS, if you can't find original catalogs for your bicycles, I very well may have the rarity you need to compliment your bicycle.
Remember everyone to email me for the complete up to date PDF list of over 500 original catalogs for sale covering many many brands of bicycles.
Go over the list a few times as things pop out to your surprise.
A lot of literature here!
Regarding this particular FOWLER bicycle, I have the original catalogs and sales brochure for sale for years 1895, 1896, 1897 FOWLER so more can be learned.
Mike Cates, CA.
(760) 473-6201 Voice calls only and I do not text.
Email: [email protected]

 

[bentwoody66]

I also read that Fowler offered any color but white. Yet, the Fowler purchased from the Schwinn collection many years ago was a white one and all original. My client bought the bike from that auction and I took many pictures of it.

I’m restoring mine in the Purple that was offered in their catalogue.

So what is the verdict on this color? Looks Olive Drab to me?

 

[New Mexico Brant]

So what is the verdict on this color? Looks Olive Drab to me?

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Hard to tell, looks like a mustard color where it is scratched. @hoofhearted somewhere posted the original paint formula for US military bikes as being a yellow ochre mixed with black. As memory serves Patric's post was in regards to the WWI bicycles.

 

[Vintage racing]

Hard to tell, looks like a mustard color where it is scratched. @hoofhearted somewhere posted the original paint formula for US military bikes as being a yellow ochre mixed with black. As memory serves Patric's post was in regards to the WWI bicycles.

Congratulations on owning a very rare early quality bicycle. From what I have read and researched the option lists were impressive . 7 different seat options 5 or 7 handlebar options, multiple color options depending on the year. It could of been a darker green that faded over the past 120 plus years to an olive . Paint pigments weren’t the best over 100 plus years ago.

 

[corbettclassics]

And Fowler decorated their 1895/96 NY store in evergreen so they must have liked green!

 

[bentwoody66]

Here is one for the serial number list

 

[corbettclassics]

They only go on to say that it was an employee who invented the truss but do not mention that persons name.
- Interesting read if you want to learn a little more.

 

[cyclingday]

That is a very interesting read.
Thanks, for posting.
I wonder if the said foreman that brought the design with him when he immigrated from Germany, was Ignaz Schwinn?
Or, was E.M. Graham the foreman who immigrated from Germany?
Graham sounds more like a Scottish or English surname.
So, I’m thinking that Ignaz Schwinn was the Foreman that is mentioned in that article?

 

[cyclingday]

Was there any connection between,
The Fowler Cycle Mfg. Company, and Fowler Cycle Works?

Maybe a last ditch effort to revive the brand?

 

[SKPC]