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Wartime Schwinn New World Bikes - We Know You Have Them - Tell Us About Them!!

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It's even nicer in the light. Love the Gas and Light top tube and rear fender art, pin stripes, blackout hub, painted rims, Lobdell Victory V saddle, short rear mudguard and single wire brace. Really unique and cool. I can see why people have been taking care of it for the past 80 years. I found a copy of a Baltimore Gas and Electric 200th Anny catalog. It would have been called Consolidated Gas and Electric Co back then. Catalog had a cool pic of some of the bikes they used in the 1920's and this classic WWII poster:
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Great stuff @1936PEDALER ! Thanks for sharing it with us.
 
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It's even nicer in the light. Love the Gas and Light top tube and rear fender art, pin stripes, blackout hub, painted rims, Lobdell Victory V saddle, short rear mudguard and single wire brace. Really unique and cool. I can see why people have been taking care of it for the past 80 years. I found a copy of a Baltimore Gas and Electric 200th Anny catalog. It would have been called Consolidated Gas and Electric Co back then. Catalog had a cool pic of some of the bikes they used in the 1920's and this classic WWII poster:
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Great stuff @1936PEDALER ! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks so much for your insight.
Hard to imagine a war going on and pedaling the hills of Baltimore all day while working.
This bike is,as found in a basement in east Baltimore. Every moving part was perfectly adjusted and smooth as glass. The rear fender tab is the only repair needed
 
Here's the link for one I posted at the end of last year. It's pretty rough and a lot of the original parts have been changed out or tossed, but it's the first post-war "F" serial on the list and it has Schwinn S-8 extruded aluminum rims, which were an unusual option. I'm not even certain these were original to the bike, but the hub date (Jan. 1949) is a fairly close match to the serial date (May 1949), so maybe.
 
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I found a wartime ladies bike localish to me. It’s not complete, missing front fender, chain guard and no good grips. I asked the guy if he would sell parts off it because I need a rear fender brace. It has blackout parts, just a coaster brake bike. Anyone here have any interest in any of the other parts? I don’t need the whole thing and wife would kill me, but id like to have that rear brace.

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@Jon Olson posted some pics in another thread of his 1940 step through with 3 speed hub and 3 piece crank. Similar to @vincev D serial 3 piece crank bike, the D in the serial is the hard to read I / 0 double strike. This bike also has flat mudguard braces from the 1939 Catalog and a nice AS&Co chainring.
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1939 Catalog pic of braces.
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“Oilit “ asked me to post these pictures of my 1940-41? This is the original 3-speed hud that came with the bicycle.
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Thanks @Jon Olson ! I think @SirMike1983 said it would likely be an AW stamped hub. What do you guys make of that faint "0" there too? I found this digging around on the net. I'm probably just getting hip to this:

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AW 0 = 1940? Makes sense with the BB Serial.

Adding pics of @Oilit 's 1949 F serial with 3 speed SA hub w 49 date code, Paramount front hub, sweet S-8 rims, Wise Lock, and 50's shifter.
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Another unique New World @Oilit, thanks for pointing me to it!
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On the single-digit year code hubs, the digit will often appear directly to the right of the "AW". So if you have a "0" next to the AW, 1940 is a good bet. A 36-hole from 1940 is a good hub to have because it's from one of the early generations of AW and a Schwinn-friendly spoke count.
 
Thanks @Jon Olson ! I think @SirMike1983 said it would likely be an AW stamped hub. What do you guys make of that faint "0" there too? I found this digging around on the net. I'm probably just getting hip to this:

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AW 0 = 1940? Makes sense with the BB Serial.

Adding pics of @Oilit 's 1949 F serial with 3 speed SA hub w 49 date code, Paramount front hub, sweet S-8 rims, Wise Lock, and 50's shifter.
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Another unique New World @Oilit, thanks for pointing me to it!
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1940 would be my guess. I wonder how many of these were exported by Sturmey-Archer before the war pre-empted everything else?
 
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@Darj posted this all original 1940 NW Racer with custom bent diadrant fork. Persons Track Racer saddle, wooden rims, track stem and bars, race pedals, pin stripes and decals are all there. Fit's nicely between it's racer brothers on the chart. Most of the top 10 oldest New Worlds on the list are Racers.
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