Re: Packard Bikes
Posted by Leeedy On 2020/6/9 17:25:04
Slogan sound familiar??? Another use of the famous Packard Motor Car Company slogan in the bicycle world of the 1930s shows how the bicycle industry revered PMCC and the Packard mystique.
People in the bicycle "hobby" will tell you this stand was only for an Elgin brand bicycle, but that's not true. While it came standard on the fabulous 1937 and 1938 Elgin Bluebirds and some other Elgins, it was sold as an accessory for any bicycle. This was during the era when most bicycles had stands that pivoted from the rear and were clumsy to park and to retract.
The bicycle shown here is an Iver Johnson-which was a first-class bicycle and rather expensive (I have both a boy's and girl's mint original Deluxe "Mobike" with tank, headlight, horn. etc. along with other Iver Johnsons and almost all of the company's bicycle catalogues going back to the 1800s). Iver Johnson also made guns and motorcycles. This is an original photo from the late 1930s courtesy of NBHAA.com.
What did "B.C." stand for? Barry Cohen.
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People in the bicycle "hobby" will tell you this stand was only for an Elgin brand bicycle, but that's not true. While it came standard on the fabulous 1937 and 1938 Elgin Bluebirds and some other Elgins, it was sold as an accessory for any bicycle. This was during the era when most bicycles had stands that pivoted from the rear and were clumsy to park and to retract.
The bicycle shown here is an Iver Johnson-which was a first-class bicycle and rather expensive (I have both a boy's and girl's mint original Deluxe "Mobike" with tank, headlight, horn. etc. along with other Iver Johnsons and almost all of the company's bicycle catalogues going back to the 1800s). Iver Johnson also made guns and motorcycles. This is an original photo from the late 1930s courtesy of NBHAA.com.
What did "B.C." stand for? Barry Cohen.
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