About 10 years ago I bought a rusty weathered frame made by The Canada Cycle and Motor Co.
It's a 1936 first year model Flyte. The serial number is Z-5001. On December 30 2012, I bought another Flyte, mostly complete from the original family. The bike was sold originally to a large prominent family in a small mill town in northern Ontario. (That's another story). The serial number read Z-5002. Now amazing as that is, I noticed the front curved forks on 5002 are different than any other fork I have ever seen, including the 11 I own. Could this be a prototype? I never thought much about the serial number 5001, but am considering the possibility that 5001 may just be the first production frame made? I need to know more about how serial numbers were sequenced by CCM. This frame design was patented on October 23, 1935. Could the number 5 reference the 5th week of 1936 (first week of February) by the time tooling was ready for the first frame? The 5002 frame was over painted with primer, but I uncovered maroon paint with Ivory over it inside the bottom bracket. I was told the bike was painted blue and white originally. The fork in primer is typical design, the other one not. I feel like I'm in deep with this one.
It's a 1936 first year model Flyte. The serial number is Z-5001. On December 30 2012, I bought another Flyte, mostly complete from the original family. The bike was sold originally to a large prominent family in a small mill town in northern Ontario. (That's another story). The serial number read Z-5002. Now amazing as that is, I noticed the front curved forks on 5002 are different than any other fork I have ever seen, including the 11 I own. Could this be a prototype? I never thought much about the serial number 5001, but am considering the possibility that 5001 may just be the first production frame made? I need to know more about how serial numbers were sequenced by CCM. This frame design was patented on October 23, 1935. Could the number 5 reference the 5th week of 1936 (first week of February) by the time tooling was ready for the first frame? The 5002 frame was over painted with primer, but I uncovered maroon paint with Ivory over it inside the bottom bracket. I was told the bike was painted blue and white originally. The fork in primer is typical design, the other one not. I feel like I'm in deep with this one.
