JC higgins bike - help when it was manufactured

[jshoaff]

Can you help with when this JC higgins was made (year ?) and is it a Color Flow ?
bottom brakcet stamp shows MOST MOD-50245486 0.
If you go to the Sears Parts Direct the Part# 50245386 it comes up but not the year it was made.

thx

 

[Freqman1]

I want to say '54 and it looks like what is left of a Colorflow but I'll let the Murray experts verify. V/r Shawn

 

[jshoaff]

Thanks for looking at it - the Murray chart below does seem to show how my bike was stamped "MOST"
So because it ends in T that might make it a '54 ?

 

[jshoaff]

So are the any Murray experts that can confirm this is 1954 ? or what year the bike was made ?


thx

 

[Rivnut]

The MOD 502 is Sear's ID fir Murray built bicycles. I think you're right that yours a '54 based on the T. Look for a '54 Sears catalog and find a bike with part #4546 to confirm the other numbers.

I've got a three JC Higgins bikes and they all fit the same scenario.

Here's a model 4546 in the 1956 Sears catalog. Looks a lot like the pictures you posted. This 4546 number is a number for ordering parts for the service department. It would have been used for as many years as the model was sold. So the model 4546 was built for a few years. So I'm betting that the T on yours is for 1954

http://www.wishbookweb.com/FB/1956_Sears_Christmas_Book/files/assets/basic-html/page-351.html#

 

[jshoaff]

The MOD 502 is Sear's i.d. fir Murray built bicycles. I think you're right that yours a '54 based on the T. Look for a '54 Sears catalog and find a bike with part #4546 to confirm the other numbers.

I've got a three JC Higgins bikes and they all fit the same scenario.

Here's a model 4546 in the 1956 Sears catalog. Looks a lot like the pictures you posted. This 4546 number is a number for ordering parts for the service department. It would have been used for as many years as the model was sold. So the model 4546 was built for a few years. So I'm betting that the T on yours is for 1954

http://www.wishbookweb.com/FB/1956_Sears_Christmas_Book/files/assets/basic-html/page-351.html#

Thanks for the Info , That Catalog helps - going to see if there is 1954 catalog online.

 

[Freqman1]

Here is the book you need if you are going to study bikes sold by Sears. Contact @sm2501 for a copy. V/r Shawn

 

[sm2501]

The Elgin book is available to Cabe’rs for $30 shipped.

Contact me directly for details.


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