Can someone decode this JC serial number?

[Redd Rockett]

I just got this JC Higgins today. Can someone identify the year from the serial number? The numbers are M.O.T.S.-V, MOD-502, 458, and 112509. Thank you in advance!

 

[Wildcat]

I keep finding more on the Murray bike serial numbers all the time. Murray made your bike for Sears, JC Higgins was their brand name, after 62 just was Sears as a brand. Before WW2 was named Elgin. My latest update to the list shows MOT as 1958 or 1961.

 

[Redd Rockett]

I keep finding more on the Murray bike serial numbers all the time. Murray made your bike for Sears, JC Higgins was their brand name, after 62 just was Sears as a brand. Before WW2 was named Elgin. My latest update to the list shows MOT as 1958 or 1961.

Okay thanks!

 

[Redd Rockett]

This other guy says '54. The JC's went to the middleweight look by '58 so I'm thinking earlier.

 

[dihummer]

M.O.T.S.-V. I believe the "V" is for 1956.

 

[Phil Fink]

M.O.T.S.-V
M - Murray
O - Ohio
T - Tennessee (not 1954-T)
S - Sears (not 1953-S)
V - 1956-V.

MOD-502, 458
Mod - model (not 1939-D)
502 - code for Sears
458 - model #

 

[Redd Rockett]

M.O.T.S.-V
Murray
Ohio
Tennessee
Sears
1956-V.

Thanks! Someone else said '56 as well. Someone else thought '58-'61, but it's definately not '60's. From what I understand through some research, the balloon bikes were going out by about '54-'56 as the new, lighter middleweight bikes were replacing them. And my bike definately looks '50's, I don't think it looks '60's at all. Just my opinion, I'm not an expert.