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Western flyer bicycle identification help needed
- Thread starter Sonny
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Hammer
Finally riding a big boys bike
Welcome to the CABE! You are in the right place, your bike looks like a beauty, and will clean up nicely with elbow grease and last longer than anything you buy at a chain store!
Take a little steel wool or a brush and clean the numbers circled in my pic off, I think I see MOD and some numbers there? I looked thru a few serial number charts and did not see anything like yours, Huffman, Cleveland Welding Company and Murray made bikes for Western Flyer sold at Western Auto stores, therefore it may have a few different serial number options, best of luck and keep us posted if you keep it and do a clean up! Someone with more knowledge than me will chime in soon and help you out, not much value as far as collectors go,l and it's a girls bike, but still a well built machine that deserves another go!
Aaron
Take a little steel wool or a brush and clean the numbers circled in my pic off, I think I see MOD and some numbers there? I looked thru a few serial number charts and did not see anything like yours, Huffman, Cleveland Welding Company and Murray made bikes for Western Flyer sold at Western Auto stores, therefore it may have a few different serial number options, best of luck and keep us posted if you keep it and do a clean up! Someone with more knowledge than me will chime in soon and help you out, not much value as far as collectors go,l and it's a girls bike, but still a well built machine that deserves another go!
Aaron
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the tinker
Cruisin' on my Bluebird
What is stamped directly after the letters M O ? Any letters? M O would be Murray company of Ohio.
It' a letter D stamped after the MO thanks for the reply
The letter D is after the MO
Thanks trying to find out the model and year of manufacture if possible
Hammer
Finally riding a big boys bike
I think the way Murrays serial numbers run MOD would make the bike a 1947, I am probably wrong but I was pretty sure that's how they ran the numbers and the year I had a Murray that was a 1956 and the serial was MOM and if you go back from that as in MOL is 55 then MOD should be 47? Someone with more knowledge will correct me if I am wrong
Aaron
Aaron
Thank you very much for the information. I am trying to see if the bike has value as is if it' worth restoring
