Dating Hercules Hubs

[Luckyrob]

Is there a data base somewhere that dates Hercules hubs? All I can
find is A series comes before B series. I have an A series 0 model
and any help would be appreciated. The pre Raleigh serial #'s on the
bikes seem to have no pattern but that is what makes the hunting
interesting. Thanks Rob

[globalguy]

At first, I thought this was some kind of untoward, span advertising a dating service for bodybuilders %-{)>

gk

garth

After the plane went down,
the cars sat for weeks in long-term parking.

Then, one by one, they began to disappear
from among the cars of the living.

Wayne Miller from Post-Elegy

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[Rudi Mayr]

There's a recent thread on Bike Forums that sheds some light on hercumatic hub dating.  Start with this post and follow the discussion:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/778645-Yet-Another-Hercules-Thread-)?p=13434506&viewfull=1#post13434506

The gist of it is that A Type started in 1943 with the date code 3, cycling through the digits until they went to the B Type in 1953, so...

A TYPE 3 = 1943
A TYPE 9 = 1949
A TYPE 0 = 1950
A TYPE 2 = 1952
B TYPE 3 = 1953

I'll let you fill in the blanks and extrapolate from there!

Whether this is correct, or not, I offer no opinion.  It does, however, follow the same (questionable) logic as Sturmey Archer dating (where AW 9 = 1939 and AW 0 = 1940).

Rudi Mayr

[Luckyrob]

Thanks! Rudi
I was searching everywhere with little result and this order seems
right. I am looking at a Hercules with A TYPE 0 and the owner thought
it to be close to 1950 in age. The rest of the story is long but this
is a great help. Cheers Rob

On Nov 3, 7:32 am, Rudi Mayr <rudim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a recent thread on Bike Forums that sheds some light on hercumatic

> hub dating.  Start with this post and follow the discussion:http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/778645-Yet-Another-Hercules-...

>
> The gist of it is that A Type started in 1943 with the date code 3, cycling
> through the digits until they went to the B Type in 1953, so...
>
> A TYPE 3 = 1943
> A TYPE 9 = 1949
> A TYPE 0 = 1950
> A TYPE 2 = 1952
> B TYPE 3 = 1953
>
> I'll let you fill in the blanks and extrapolate from there!
>
> Whether this is correct, or not, I offer no opinion.  It does, however,
> follow the same (questionable) logic as Sturmey Archer dating (where AW 9 =
> 1939 and AW 0 = 1940).
>
> Rudi Mayr
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM, globalguy <global...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > At first, I thought this was some kind of untoward, span advertising a
> > dating service for bodybuilders %-{)>
>
> > gk
>
> > garth
>

> > *After the plane went down,
> > the cars sat for weeks in long-term parking. *
>
> > *Then, one by one, they began to disappear
> > from among the cars of the living*.
>
> > Wayne Miller from *Post-Elegy*

>
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Luckyrob <ralu...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> >> Is there a data base somewhere that dates Hercules hubs?  All I can
> >> find is A series comes before B series.  I have an A series 0 model
> >> and any help would be appreciated.  The pre Raleigh serial #'s on the
> >> bikes seem to have no pattern but that is what makes the hunting
> >> interesting. Thanks Rob
>
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