New Departure Manufacturing Company
Photo postcard of the New Departure Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Connecticut. The New Departure Factory
Author: Dave Stromberger
Delta Electric Company
The Delta Electric Company in Marion Indiana produced bicycle accessories for many years. Their most popular product product was headlights. Most bicycle manufacturers chose Delta head lights and tail lights as original equipment on...
1941 Colson Imperial Twin-Cushion
This is an ad copy for the very rare double suspended Colson “Twin-Cushion” bicycle. The rear of the frame was cushioned in the same manner as the front fork, which was a Colson exclusive...
1937 National / Dayton Catalog
Features Super Streamline, Streamline Motorbike, and other great Huffman made bikes.
1942 Fall / Winter Goodyear Catalog
Colson built Goodyear Double Eagle Clipper and Double Eagle Deluxe.
1939 Spring / Summer Montgomery Ward Catalog
The rare 1939 Hawthorne Zep is shown in this scan of the bicycle pages from the 1939 Spring and Summer Montgomery Ward catalog.
1939 Spring / Summer Spiegel Catalog
These pages were scanned from the 1939 Spring and Summer Spiegel catalog. They show bicycles made by Monark Silver King Inc. and the Shelby Cycle Company. Spiegel’s bikes were brand named Airman. The first...
1938 Western Auto Catalog
In this 1938 Western Auto Supply catalog, we see bicycles built by Shelby. The early version of the Air-Flo is shown. The Air-Flo DeLuxe features a Delta torpedo combination horn-headlight and a Delta Defender...
1940 Fall / Winter Firestone Catalog
Firestone catalog bicycle pages showing their offerings for 1940.
1936 Fall / Winter Firestone Catalog
Fall and Winter catalog showing the 1936 bicycle offerings from Firestone. Bicycles this year were exclusively built by Huffman.