cycles gitane wrote:
PS clydesdale scot, how did you get a.jpg from the web page? Did not work for me on my browser.
I saved the page as a PDF (one of the options in the top left of the page), then opened the page in Photoshop then saved it as a jpeg at various resolutions for the thumbnail and the larger image.
I could have done a Printscreen when viewing the page and pasted it in Photoshop and stitched the image together, or I could have saved the image in Acrobat as a jpeg file...
(I know more about image manipulation than I know about old bikes)
It appears that the 'Coronation' range was around by 1937 see
SMH 24 April 1937
and the
[Hobart] Mercury
These adverts mention the women's bike but there is no image of one.
In 1953 the
Mercury had the womens model as "majestic Royal purple and gold finish, sparkling all-chrome fittings, distinctively regal transfers...."
In 1954
The Argus and
the Mercury both carried adverts for the "Elizabethan" (no reference is made to Coronation) with "this spectacular scoop, expressly designed for the Royal Tour. It's a very special creation in cylcles...equipped with alluring curves...equipped with 'floating comfort' saddle and colourful dress net. Its distinctive red white and blue finish is brilliantly set off with chrome plating... to complete a sleek lovely cycle, truly befitting a Queen...the cycle that graces the Queen's highways."
[click on image for larger image]
I wonder if the paint on Stackyard59's bike on page one is indeed "badly painted" or is it just as it was intended in 1954, as the colour scheme matches the equally colourful advertising copy.