truss frame ID help (not Iver)

[bricycle]

Do ANYONE know the date of that Green Victor brochure? Or any other Victor with that chain wheel(in brochure) thanks, bri.

 

[Iverider]

I don't know the date, but Tailhole's "Victor" Frame shares a lot of similarities with some of the Simmons badged bikes I've seen out there. Tyler has this Simmons Westminster on his site that is sort of a resto-mod, but he mentions that it was built by Colson. http://luxlow.com/bicycles/1900s-simmons-arch-bar-fixed-gear-vintage-racer-bicycle-850/

Here is another that Nickinator posted awhile ago.

The thread contains more photos.
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/teens-simmons-westminster-arch-bar-frame.49097/

So while this doesn't answer your question Bri, I pose another question. WHO actually manufactured these bikes??? Is it Colson as Tyler has suggested? Or a Mead-like configuration where it's just a collection of parts with no single mfg.?

 

[bricycle]

Thanks Bri.

 

[David Brown]

A better way to go when blasting is get some one that does soda blasting.Does a great job and you don't have to use so much primer.Just my take on it.

 

[Cowboy in NC]

Most Everybody is going with Victor, but I had a similar Racer Frame (wood wheels) tagged "Nassau" ---with four holed badge--- frame had identical "Fish Lug" assembly. I believe it was made by the Emblem Bicycle Company of Angola, NY , who bought out Pierce. One advertisement that I saw on Google shows an identical Bike...Research--"Nassau".
Mine was a racer and had a different fork and wheels---Cowboy

 

[SKPC]

Excelsior, Snyder?