Musselman vs. Improved Peerless Hub

[speedy]

Wasn't Peerless the Sears brand?
AFAIK the hub is a Musselman, just marked Peerless for Sears.

Same as Elgin & JC Higgins later on.

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I'm glad that everything is going to be okay that it's working out really well.

 

[gtdohn]

Wasn't Peerless the Sears brand?
AFAIK the hub is a Musselman, just marked Peerless for Sears.

Same as Elgin & JC Higgins later on.

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Yes, Peerless was the Sears brand. Looks like Musselman just produced the hubs for them. I've even seen some Canadian bikes with very similar hubs.

 

[Archie Sturmer]

Was there also a version of the older A.J. Musselman hubs, that used a clutch with coarse teeth (at both ends), along with a removable threaded sleeve, where the clutch would interface with the shell?

Not sure if Musselman's Armless could be converted to the more typical hub, by simply swapping the left side cone that would accommodate the brake arm?

The un-improved Peerless hub looked like a (pre-1909?) Atherton hub, in the 1908 Sears catalog.