Women's Huffy?

[Oilit]

I picked this bike up as part of a package deal, it's a women's bike and there's no head badge but I'm thinking it's a Huffy. The other bike was pre-war, but this has a Musselman hub with a black-out arm, so I'm guessing early post-war. Am I close?

 

[Euphman06]

Yeah... Mid 40s Huffman. Looks like that to me. Find the serial number and check it in the Huffman thread on here

 

[Oilit]

Yeah... Mid 40s Huffman. Looks like that to me. Find the serial number and check it in the Huffman thread on here

I was looking at @Freqman1's web site and it looks similar to the examples he shows there but not exactly like any of them, but it also looks like Huffman changed their serial formats a lot, even depending on who they were building bikes for. But my knowledge of Huffman/Huffy bikes is slim, so I appreciate you taking the time to look at mine. I wasn't sure, but I knew there were others here who would know!

Huffman/Huffy -

There seems to be little rhyme or reason to a lot of the early serial numbers seen on Huffman bicycles. An amazing amount of variety exists between numbers even on the same models such as the ’37 Firestone Fleetwood Supreme. The below examples are what are generally found. Notice some of these...

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[New Mexico Brant]

It is a 1955.

 

[Freqman1]

I'm guessing 1945. Also I believe you should be able to date the Musselman hub--also on my site. V/r Shawn

 

[Oilit]

It is a 1955.

I looked at some of those, but the later rear fork ends don't look the same.

 

[Oilit]

I'm guessing 1945. Also I believe you should be able to date the Musselman hub--also on my site. V/r Shawn

Thank you! This is the first Musselman I've run across, so I hadn't thought of that!

 

[Freqman1]

Hub Dating -

New Departure Hubs Unlike the Morrow and Musselman…Read More

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[Adamtinkerer]

I looked at some of those, but the later rear fork ends don't look the same.

I believe in '48 they changed to the really large rear dropouts, and built it through 1958, the last rear facing USA bike until the BMX era.

 

[bloo]

Yep, thats right. They introduced a brand new prewar-style rear fork in the postwar era. This bike is before the change.