Mercian
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Hi All,
carrying on the research into WW1 'Military Model' bikes, I came across a useful article on page 14 of "Motorcycle and Bicycle Illustrated" of Jan 30th 1919.
There it discusses the cancellation of war orders for military motorcycles and bicycles, as presented to the House of Representaives in Washington, on November 30th 1918. I have attached a .pdf of the page.
The numbers of bikes ordered, delivered and cancelled from each of the three makers is given, so that we now know exactly how many of each were made.
Combining this information with the table from an "Army Motors" article on "Military Model" bicycles by Philip Eckman (information originally taken from Order and Production figures, US Army Bicycles in the Great War ), we now have a production table that looks like this:
This shows that there were slightly more "Great Western" (14%) than "Dayton" (12%) bikes produced, but the vast majority were "Westfield" (74%).
It also mentioned that an additional 900 miscellaneous bicycles had been bought.
I'm out of time to continue now, more later....
Best Regards,
Adrian
carrying on the research into WW1 'Military Model' bikes, I came across a useful article on page 14 of "Motorcycle and Bicycle Illustrated" of Jan 30th 1919.
There it discusses the cancellation of war orders for military motorcycles and bicycles, as presented to the House of Representaives in Washington, on November 30th 1918. I have attached a .pdf of the page.
The numbers of bikes ordered, delivered and cancelled from each of the three makers is given, so that we now know exactly how many of each were made.
Combining this information with the table from an "Army Motors" article on "Military Model" bicycles by Philip Eckman (information originally taken from Order and Production figures, US Army Bicycles in the Great War ), we now have a production table that looks like this:
This shows that there were slightly more "Great Western" (14%) than "Dayton" (12%) bikes produced, but the vast majority were "Westfield" (74%).
It also mentioned that an additional 900 miscellaneous bicycles had been bought.
I'm out of time to continue now, more later....
Best Regards,
Adrian
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