I know this thread is 3 years old, but it deserves updating. The pictures show this bike pretty much as I bought it. The seat and the pedals have been replaced and the Rocket Ray is long gone, but otherwise it's pretty complete. The serial number dates it to Oct. 1953 and the Sturmey Archer hub (alloy) is dated "54 1", so that matches the bikes that
@mrg posted. It also has the earlier style Weinmnn levers, and I'm still not sure when the style changed. I've seen them on the early middleweights and one as late as 1958 on a Roadmaster Flying Falcon, but AMF may have been using up old stock.
I've also included some pictures of a seat I picked up off of EBay. I'm guessing this has to be an "Airflow" saddle, made by Mesinger (thanks to
@Freqman1 for noticing what I'd missed!). My understanding is that the balloon Jaguars used either the Airflow or the Faulhaber seat, like the one in this post by
@bobcycles :
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/v...dle-balloon-54-jag-etc-150-00-shipped.108169/. Was the Faulhaber on the later (1955) Jaguars, or was this random?
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