Old tandem bike identification

[Billythekid]

I can say my friends also has the turn buckles for the rear steering I originally thought they were added but yours has them to they are original hope someone knows something cause I would like to end up with my buddys as I like it a lot

 

[Superman1984]

To me it looks like it's CWC but that fork is made identical to a post war 50s Columbia fork. Maybe I am wrong if the rear steer tabs are built in or welded on vs bolt on etc. What's the rivit spacing center to center on the badge and the head tube ?

Kickstand isn't original.

 

[New Mexico Brant]

No new information or ideas????

It kind of seems like a shop built bike; better than a homemade version that we see from the 20's and 30's. That being said it has some anomalies that I can't quite get my head around. @Jesse McCauley

 

[Billythekid]

This is the other bike I know of sorry it’s the only pic I got

 

[Superman1984]

1897 Geneva Rear-Steering Tandem – The Online Bicycle Museum

1897 Geneva Rear-Steering Tandem

onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk

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[New Mexico Brant]

This is the other bike I know of sorry it’s the only pic I got

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What is that one badged Billy? That appears to be the answer for the OP's bike; does it also have built-in drop stand ears on the rear?

 

[Billythekid]

The badge is not original unfortunately not sure about drop stand ears sorry

 

[Jesse McCauley]

To my eye this looks like a well done shop combined tandem bicycle. I don't believe it started live as a tandem but was build by joining two bicycles, the visible joints and splicing between the two bikes is much more crude than any tandem I've seen from the 1890's - 1940's as far as factory made joining.

 

[Freqman1]

To my eye this looks like a well done shop combined tandem bicycle. I don't believe it started live as a tandem but was build by joining two bicycles, the visible joints and splicing between the two bikes is much more crude than any tandem I've seen from the 1890's - 1940's as far as factory made joining.

I agree. The threaded rod is something I've never seen on a factory tandem. Well done but I don't think a factory job either. V/r Shawn

 

[Jesse McCauley]

Looking at it closely I can almost envision it as one of those (as pictured above) early generation Colson built "combination tandem" bicycles that had a serious (if not fatal) wreck?
I wonder if the stoker headtube was compromised and bottom twin tubes as well maybe that would explain the sleeves etc you can see throughout?

Based on the bottom brackets, seatpost mounting integral parts, rear dropouts etc it is almost certainly a 1930's or later machine so my gut is somewhere in the middle of a heavily repaired tandem and a pair of bikes joined at the hip. If it was the former then for a moment anyway it was the latter too!