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You ask one of the most
difficult questions and the answer is as follows you dont know what it
is unless you take the whole thing appart and look at all the markings
and see which occur the most from that you can then deduct that its one
or the other make.
The picture of your 1951
bike shows quite clearly that it has a Condor front fork and the
front sprocket is also a Condor sprocket so I would safely say that
it is a Condor .
You should also have have
a C in a circle stamped in the middle of the front wheel hub then
to go further almost all the parts are stamped in the same way plus the
year that it was manufactured in your case it should be 51 this goes for
things like the bearing cones, axels saddle and pedals but not nuts and
bolts. Of course parts that were replaced over the years do not have the
same dates anymore but it makes it interisting to try to find them.
The rear wheel hub should
also have the date on it and generaly it corresponds to the frame, the
one on your bike is a later model and they dont all have dates anymore.
All the hubs used were Torpedo from Fichtel and Sachs and they were manufactured
from 1904 to the late 1980s and this seems to be one of the reasons why
the MO 05 .
These bicycles were also
as Rad and not velo, there is also a difference between a Radfahrer Rad
and the Truppenfahrrad or Zeughausrad
The Radfahrer Rad had never
a carrier and the small green numberplate, they only used special carriers
for amunition, antitank weapons, light machineguns and the troop mechanic
one can also tell these appart from the others by the number on the red
numberplate that is or should be on the rear light this number should be1001.
The other numbers were used by the rest of the troops and the adminstration
so all the cycles that have the green numberplate and carrier were for
general use and are still used today.
The tool bag under
the seat should also have the frame number on it unless it was replaced
at some stage. I have a drawing of the different sprockets that I can fax
to you with a few other details.
One other thing is that carbide
lights were fitted till the thirties, they were made by Rieman till
+ -1910 and after that they were made by Decker in Neuchatel ,these were
also numbered and stamped with the Swiss +.
The dynamo lights
were fitted to the general use cycles in the fifties already but to the
Radfahrerrad only in about the mid eighties and almost all of them are
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Om
te weten te komen of jouw fiets een Condor is moet je naar kleine detail
gaan zoeken. De meeste onderdelen zijn door Condor gestempeld met een C
in een cirkel. Hierboven staat een foto van de trapperas. Op de ring lingsboven
en uitvergroot hieronder ziet u duidelijk de C.
You
have to look for the small details. In most parts made by Condor you can
find a small stamp. A C in a cirkel.
