Re: Packard Bikes
Posted by Leeedy On 2023/4/8 21:40:51
Now let's go even further back. This time to December of 1926. The location was St. Louis, Missouri. The retailer was Stix, Baer & Fuller.
Neither the advertisement text, nor the image make it clear which manufacturing company made this Packard bicycle.
However we can tell you one thing. This single upper bar frame design (known as a "camelback") was typical of at least one model manufactured by Arnold, Schwinn & Company (ASC) around this time. If you would like to see other examples, scroll back through this thread. An ASC camelback bicycle is shown in red (as indicated in the ad) in the original ASC dealer literature. And again in the PMCC color advertisement that talked about "Red Letter Days."
You will note reference to "nickled rims" in this B&W ad. Chrome didn't start entering the bicycle realm until around 1928, two years after this ad appeared.
Reference to "New Departure" coaster brake shows that by the 1920s coaster brakes were common on American bicycles... and expected equipment (see earlier discussion in this thread about the emergence of bicycle brakes). As for New Departure, it eventually became a division of none other than General Motors.
Also, for those loyal followers of this thread, you will notice that Packard bicycles were indeed sold from one end of the USA to the other. And in both large and small communities. So for those bicycle "experts" today who crow about other brands and can't recall the facts on Packard bicycles... they just can't recall what they just don't know.
Oh. And dare I say it once again for the upteenth time? No mention of giving these bicycles away to "sweeten deals" on Packard automobiles.
Original literature image courtesy of National Bicycle History Archive of America (NBHAA.com).
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Neither the advertisement text, nor the image make it clear which manufacturing company made this Packard bicycle.
However we can tell you one thing. This single upper bar frame design (known as a "camelback") was typical of at least one model manufactured by Arnold, Schwinn & Company (ASC) around this time. If you would like to see other examples, scroll back through this thread. An ASC camelback bicycle is shown in red (as indicated in the ad) in the original ASC dealer literature. And again in the PMCC color advertisement that talked about "Red Letter Days."
You will note reference to "nickled rims" in this B&W ad. Chrome didn't start entering the bicycle realm until around 1928, two years after this ad appeared.
Reference to "New Departure" coaster brake shows that by the 1920s coaster brakes were common on American bicycles... and expected equipment (see earlier discussion in this thread about the emergence of bicycle brakes). As for New Departure, it eventually became a division of none other than General Motors.
Also, for those loyal followers of this thread, you will notice that Packard bicycles were indeed sold from one end of the USA to the other. And in both large and small communities. So for those bicycle "experts" today who crow about other brands and can't recall the facts on Packard bicycles... they just can't recall what they just don't know.
Oh. And dare I say it once again for the upteenth time? No mention of giving these bicycles away to "sweeten deals" on Packard automobiles.
Original literature image courtesy of National Bicycle History Archive of America (NBHAA.com).
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