Montgomery Ward Hawthorne Bicycle Serial Numbers

Hey, I'm new to this site. I resently picked up a beat up but in tacked mongomery ward Hawthorne bicycle, I love to restore old things like this as well as cars but I have never had such a hard time figuring out what exactly this year is. The serial number on the bottom of the crank case is 01953. I took the bike down to bear metal and found lots of brass welding and a tonof it on the front fork which has the three fins. The front emblem is also brass. Kaspersky. The chain gaurd is rather big/chrome and the sprocket is in the shape of a star. The bike has two middle bars the top on has a direct bend in it down to the back wheel.

Vintage 1950's Montgomery Wards Hawthorne balloon tire bicycle bike black. Combine that with the serial number, 75EH, give us a date in the mid '50's. The serial number of this bike is: 14-EH 53369. The paint on this bike is very nice. Vintage Hawthorne Montgomery Ward Bike Bicycle w/Baskets Spedo Light Rack +* Vintage Hawthorne Montgomery Ward Bike Bicycle w/Baskets Spedo Light Rack +* Up for your viewing is a very nice Vintage Hawthorne Bicycle that I picked up at an Estate Auction.

Last clue the guy I bought it from had no idea what it was but he was told it was an early forties bike. Please help I just need to know my mind is going crazy. The All American (AA-1) was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague supposedly from the responses to a survey of American boy’s on what constituted a “good looking bike”. The bike was not offered as a Roadmaster but was sold by Montgomery Ward (though apparently not exclusively as I have a frame badged as a Western Flyer.) Interestingly there are CWC All American Badges but I have not seen one used on an All American frame. The frame itself is an odd blend of various models. It has the early straight stay rear end coupled with a unique bent down tube and uses a straight bar tank also unique to the model.

I read this online and was wondering if it matched my bike. This would be a unique find if so.

I caught myself in a deja vu moment reading the excerpt from the internetyou stumbled into a piece I put together on Cleveland Welding bicycles that I never, technically speaking, published. The piece is condensed with lots of internal referencing and because I never gathered photos or diagrams to illustrate it I never promoted it.

The fact that the All American description seemed similar to your bike illustrates the piece needs photographs as the two are chalk and cheese. Back in the present it appears you have a bike that was produced by H. At the time it was made, Snyder was one of the American “Big Three” and may have been the largest of those companies in output (Westfield and Schwinn were the other two) The general style of your bike is referred to as a Moto-Balloon today and was produced by several manufacturers between 1933 and as late as 1940+ but really lost favor after about 1936 when it was replaced by more streamlined designs. It is always hard to be sure which company produced a Moto-Balloon frame because the style is the most generic style of balloon bike built but the style of the plate crown coupled with other small details (noted by others in this thread) makes it very likely it is a Snyder product.