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Lots of custom features and additions to this bike (light, pedals, tires, reflectors, mirrors, original bike tools, rear rack). 1937 Montgomery Wards Catalog price was $31.95 lighter in weight yet actually stronger than steel bikes. Original 1937 Montgomery Wards Fall & Winter Catalog ad states: Frame, Forks, and Handle Bars are made of lightweight rustless duralumin – the same strong, heat tempered aluminum alloy used in streamlined trans & airplanes. The frame has been polished for many hours to resemble chrome! The bike frame is a 1937 standard boys duralumin (aluminum alloy) Hawthorne frame made by Silver King for Montgomery Ward. A beautiful bicycle that is a work of art and always commands the center of attention in a showroom or on the road. Incredible 1937 Monark Silver King with moon 26″ Wheel Covers. If the cable broke and was shortened it might explain the current pulley location.1937 Monark Silver King “Moon” Bicycle – Rare vintage 1937 Montgomery Wards Hawthorne The bike could have been equipped with a tank and the two-speed drive but the intermediate pulley would need to be repositioned to clear the tank. The 2-Speed Hub and the Shockmaster fork were standard equipment on some of the deluxe versions but were also available as catalog options on lesser models. In addition to the two manufacturing sources for these bikes, they were produced in a number of trim levels, which makes it next to impossible to be certain how a bike was originally equipped once pieces have been lost. #Wards hawthorne bicycle serialCombine that with the serial number, 75EH, give us a date in the mid 50s. This Hawthorne has the Blue and silver badge of the 50s. A very different style stamping was used beginning in 1940. Good choice for a rat rod.notice the dent in the top tube - right on top. #Wards hawthorne bicycle serial numberThe serial number pattern on this bike also is in line with the years I give for production and to take a stab, appears more like the numbers I currently attribute to 1939 than those for 1938. #Wards hawthorne bicycle serial numbersThe serial number should date the bike more closely except that information to decode Snyder serial numbers has yet to appear in the public domain or to be fully decoded. MW replaced the paisley sprocket that is on this bike with the throwing star design around the cusp of 1939/1940 so that dates this bike as 1938-1939 which is also within the time that Springer equipped Hawthornes all used the CWC supplied Shockmaster fork. ![]() For example, the seat pinch-bolt through the stays was used by Snyder on some frames but they also produced frames with a standard clamp, similar to the ones used on all prewar CWC.įor dating the bike, MW introduced bicycles with this style frame (the Bent-Tank frame (my name)) in the summer 1938 catalog. While it doesn’t show in the photos this frame will have a curved upper rear fender bridge, which is the easiest way to separate Snyder built Hawthornes from CWC built Hawthornes when you know the bike is one or the other.īoth companies made a wide range of frames for MW and others, and beyond the shape of the bridge (and several other differences that are generally harder to see,) it would take a long list to try to sort what is what and who is who as most of the “rules” have exceptions. 75.95 65.95 ALL WARDS HAWTHORNE BIKES FEATU LOW - PRICED HAWTHORNES HAVE FEATURES USUALLY FOUND ON HIGHER - PRICEDRICYC NATIONALLY KNOWN EQUIPMENT on every. This bike is a Snyder built Hawthorne and dates to between mid 1938 and late 1939 ![]()
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