AGE / VALUE: Wartime Roadmaster? Posted by: Chris C. On 8/1/2006 at 12:10:29 PM Did Cleveland Welding continue Roadmaster production through all the War years, 1942-45? My all original bike has the prewar frame, curved fender braces, blackout hubs.has the half moon handlebars seen on late 1940's models.

I've had a tough time pinning down it's year, is there any info on Cleveland Welding serial numebrs located on the bottom bracket? By: 129.44.185.115 RE:AGE / VALUE: Wartime Roadmaster? Posted by Gary M on 8/2/2006 at 7:32:16 PM FROM WHAT I HAVE HEARD. WW2 War Dept ordered production of all bicycles to end shortly after the start of the war. All the bike manufacturers received wartime projects.

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During the war, it was noticed that the work force shifted to mostly women, with no transportation, so production of black out bikes was authorized from Cleveland Welding, possibly others, none i have seen. Chrome was not allowed. Hence the painted hubs. I have seen these hubs installed on prewar and post war bikes, since by 1945 these were all there were in anything worth using, and anything dead was made into scrap iron. SO if your prewar mens bike needed a hub, there werent many to chose from. It was concidered un patriotic to keep junk iron, so thousands upon thousands of american machines of all description hit the scrap heap. Many owners of Packard and Cadillacs were releived of the engines right out of their cars in the driveway.

Later replaced, but Brand New Packards set all war long on dealer lots and in private yards with no engine. Some daring young men were using it in a military vehicle in some jungle. By: 24.236.217.44 RE:AGE / VALUE: Wartime Roadmaster? Posted by nate on 8/2/2006 at 8:25:08 PM Thanks Gary M for providing that information. I particularly liked that last line. By: 205.179.119.99 RE:AGE / VALUE: Wartime Roadmaster?

Posted by Scott on 8/9/2006 at 10:03:53 AM Hi, I have a 1944 Dayton bike, and have collected a bunch of information on wartime stuff. Starting in 1942 All but two Bicycle manufacturers were forced to go into war time production. The two companies were Columbia and Huffman/Dayton. Cleveland Welding did not make any actual wartime bikes.

There were, however, leftover prewar stuff that was sold until it was gone. And after the war bike makers and all manufacturers for that matter started to produce. At first stuff came out made from mostly prewar stuff and is hard to figure out precisely except that if you have one of these oddballs it could have any combination of stuff on it. Steel was rationed for several years after the war and as a result actual bikes from 1943-1949 are kinda scarce(Not that it makes them particularly valuable). There were basically two types of bikes made during the war. The first was called the universal military transport bicycle.

The war dept. Contracted them from both companies and they had to have fully interchangeable parts. These were all 26'x2.125' balloon tire bikes. The other was the civilian transport bicycle. Most of these were 26'x1-3/8s' tire bikes though some were balloon tire bikes. There were 2 of these civilian bikes on e-bay recently both Huffmans and both Girls. Mine is an oddball mens Balloon tire civilian model.

I don't think there were more girls bikes, rather I think that the mens models were used harder and more, and are more scarce now because of it. I hope this gets to you and also that it helps. I have some ads from Cleveland Welding if you want e-mail me and I will send copies. Scott by: 71.108.108.126 AGE / VALUE: HELP posted by: Mark on 7/31/2006 at 10:11:35 PM Can anyone help me identify this bike? Open Media Wifi Bridge Software Review on this page. No #'s no tag. Java Facebook Masenger Download.