Re: Packard Bikes

Posted by Leeedy On 2022/12/31 2:04:40
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Ozstatman wrote:
Hey Leeeeeedy,

Did I get the number of e's right?

Second question, found the photo below on Facebook and seeing you're now identifying bikes for people(not really) thought you might be able shed some light on the one pictured.

Purely meant to be a "fun" post.

I know this is a serious thread and will delete this post if you so desire.


Ahhhh. Hello Oz. Just "Leeedy" with 3 e's is sufficient.

Wow. Somebody in the land of paper money with clear windows sure loves a wild shade of green!

You should know that yours truly has been identifying vintage American-made bicycles since the 1960s. Been collecting them and literature about them since the 1950s. So not something recently begun.

Okay... so we have a photo of a White sewing machine (while morphed in the photo into a "neverwas")... there are other aspects related to bicycles here.

White (once one of the largest sewing machine manufacturers) also did indeed make bicycles... and eventually steam automobiles.

Also note when the original literature refers to "Wheels" it was simply another way that bicycles back then were known. So synonymous with wheels were bicycles that the terms were used interchangeably for many decades.

Here, courtesy of Leon Dixon and National Bicycle History Archive of America (NBHAA.com) are samples of original White literature from the late 1800s.


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