Re: Packard Labeled Bike

Posted by Leeedy On 2013/4/3 2:02:56
The black BSCO Packard bicycle in the photos has been drastically modified. It has a 1980s repop saddle, a girl's J.C. Higgins postwar sprocket and cranks. The stem is from the mid-1950s and is of aluminum made on Gratiot avenue in Detroit in the mid-1950s. There are other modifications as well. But the headbadge and frame appear to be original. Not from Earle C. Anthony's dealership, but owners knew Mr. Anthony. Would like to know how to contact the owner.

Internet info being spread around that PMCC somehow owned Colson is totally bogus. Internet myth.

The info given on CWC is also mistaken. The particular CWC Packard shown here, while nicely executed, is a postwar model with different parts and mods. This can easily be verified by both the serial number (complete records DO exist) and the frame design which absolutely, positively makes it postwar (designed in fact, by my late friend, Brooks Stevens). Have all of the records of CWC and knew family members.

Furthermore Packard bicycles were never involved with car dealerships. Nor were the other car names that appeared on various bicycles. This is a very strong internet myth that persists. But a myth nonetheless. The facts are that almost all of these names were merely ones chosen as private labels by various wholesale-distributors...of which BSCO was one. The bicycles they handled were actually manufactured by a company in New York state.

Been collecting Packard bicycles and literature on them since the 1950s. Here is a 1941 Schwinn-Built Packard I restored about 20 years ago. The ornament is an aftermarket accessory

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