1918 – Color-illustrated Ranger Bicycle Catalog from the Mead Cycle Company
Chicago, Illinois: Mead Cycle Company, 1918. Staplebound. This 56-page coftcover catalog measures a little over 8.5” x 11” and includes 11 pages with color illustrations of different Ranger models. The remainder of the catalog is filled with hundreds of b/w illustrated bicycle parts and accessories. The multicolor heavy-paper front cover features an illustration of a bicyclist in riding clothes flying down a rural road with his tie flapping in the breeze; the reverse shows another cyclist in riding clothes pausing to watch a squirrel cross a country road. In nice shape. Cover has some very light spots of toning.
The bicycle models featured on the color pages include the:
Superbe
Arche-Frame
Motorbike with Electric Light
Scout
Ladies
Special
Racer
Pathfinder Model “A”
Pathfinder Motorbike
Roadster
Sentinel Roadster
The Prince
The Princess
The Magnet for Girls
The Magnet for Boys, and
The “Hurry” Cycle for “Delivery Services.”
. Very good. Item #009900The Mead Cycle Company, one of the first bicycle factories in Chicago was founded in 1889 by James L. Mead and primarily sold its cycles via mail-order catalogs. Sometime between 1944 and 1954, the company dissolved; some sources report it was purchased by Schwinn in 1946 or by James F. Lynch, the owner of a bicycle shop at 4524 West Madison Street in Chicago.
Price: $175.00