Re: Packard Bikes

Posted by Leeedy On 2023/4/27 23:42:25
And now... let's continue our steps back in time. On this occasion to the 'teens.

I'm going to show you a Bean Son Company 1917 distributor billhead that I may have posted previously in this thread. But then I am going to show you a page from that company's catalogue of around the same time. It shows a Packard bicycle that Bean Son marketed.

This same bicycle was also marketed under the "Excelsior" brand (which seems to get the motorcycle folks all tingling). But this all leads to a very confused, mis-understood and very convoluted "history" of Excelsior bicycles. Folks think these bicycles have some relationship to Excelsior motorcycles (they usually don't) and to Schwinn (again...they really don't).

Recently there has been a bicycle just like this one being shown online... only it says, "Excelsior" on the headbadge... long story. But for your pleasure...

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