That's a twin top tube model by Raleigh/T.I., it was a continuation of a Hercules design after being bought out by T.I. with the added intermediate bar because they felt the Hercules design had safety issues. The intermediate bar started in 1960.this one is a 66, there would be one of each of the Tube industries badges out there,. Robin Hood Herc, Phillips etc. I can't remember the years AMF made them but they made them too. I think it was in the 70's though. I know it is called a newsboy evreyone made a newsboy back then. Middleweight cantilever and had Dennis the menace riding them delivering papers or whatever. Merlin even called theirs a newsboy, this one is a little different I can't find a picture of my other one
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That's a wheel from a Sears bike. That would have been made in Austria by Puch. The original wheel was changed out. The Hercules would have come new with a Sturmey Archer hub. I had one of those Hercules frames, with the two tubes on top and one cantilever like that one. It was a Montgomery Wards Hawthorne but had the Hercules name on it also. I believe that bike is earlier than 66, the 60 Monkey Wards catalog show that frame, after that all I have found are the diamond frame models, no cantilever ones. It was made in Birmingham England, not Nottingham like all the bikes were made after 1960 when Raleigh bought out most of the English bike brands. It most probably is 59 or 60.this one is a 66, there would be one of each of the Tube industries badges out there,. Robin Hood Herc, Phillips etc. I can't remember the years AMF made them but they made them too. I think it was in the 70's though. I know it is called a newsboy evreyone made a newsboy back then. Middleweight cantilever and had Dennis the menace riding them delivering papers or whatever. Merlin even called theirs a newsboy, this one is a little different I can't find a picture of my other one
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I don't have pictures here but I have explained it a few hundred times about supply and demand. I have had Japanese bikes with austrian hubs with j.c higgins on the brake arm. Just for grins since you opened your mouthThat's a wheel from a Sears bike. That would have been made in Austria by Puch. The original wheel was changed out. The Hercules would have come new with a Sturmey Archer hub. I had one of those Hercules frames, with the two tubes on top and one cantilever like that one. It was a Montgomery Wards Hawthorne but had the Hercules name on it also. I believe that bike is earlier than 66, the 60 Monkey Wards catalog show that frame, after that all I have found are the diamond frame models, no cantilever ones. It was made in Birmingham England, not Nottingham like all the bikes were made after 1960 when Raleigh bought out most of the English bike brands. It most probably is 59 or 60.
One easy way to differentiate the earlier and later bikes is the fork crown. The big chrome one is pre Raleigh takeover and the skinnier one is after the takeover that happened right around 1960.
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