Vintage Perfect tricycle

Submitted by jimbo.velo on Mon, 12/23/2013 - 15:31

Hi everybody,

I'm new to this web site. I'm very happy to join this forum.

During le Grand Tour organized by Velo Québec in August 2011 , when I arrived in Sydenham,I noticed this ad about a Vintage Bicycle Parade that was to be held the following day. So I took a campground for two days instead of one. I attended to this show , bought your book on the History of CCM, and rode that quadricycle for two.

I was already a collector of antique bicycles, but it got from bad to worse...

I am in possession of a 1931 tricycle S17464 Perfect with the Maple Leaf  of the Weston Plant.

The frame has two horizontal bars,

a front drum brake: Sturmey Archer 255,

two rear wheels by Perry of Birmingham, England,

and it was constructed with four bottom brackets: 1 at the front chainwheel

                                                                                            1at the rear sprocket

                                                                                            1 at the left Wheel

                                                                                            1 at the right Wheel

There is a drive shaft that goes to the left Wheel to power the tricycle.

My question is related  to the origin of this machine, how many were made?

Thank you in advance for any information that may complete my description because this piece is already in the museum I have started in a school in Joliette.

 

Best regards

 
Jean-Marie Bourret
Joliette, Québec

 

8 Comments

Submitted by Wayne.Gillies on Mon, 12/23/2013 - 18:11.

Don't keep us in suspense..pictures please

Submitted by jimbo.velo on Thu, 12/26/2013 - 11:56.

I have three pictures that I would like to post with the description I submitted of the Perfect tricycle, but I have not yet found the way to compress them in order to attach them. I hope my son comes to visit in the next few days.

Patience please with the old man new to this kind of thing that I recently bought .

 

Submitted by John on Thu, 12/26/2013 - 14:20.

Jean-Marie:

If you want to send me the photos - john.mckenty@sympatico.ca - I'll pop them up for you.

John

Submitted by bikedenis on Fri, 12/27/2013 - 14:43.

hello Jean-Marie.. je ne te connais pas du tout mais j,ai deja demeuré à Joliette pendant 12 ans...et je n'ai jamais vu de collectionneurs de vélo dans ce coin  à part Vincent Bicycle y a des années de ça et je ne sais même plus si ce magasin existe encore, Cela fait deja plus de 15 ans que je n'ai plus été dans ce coin. Alors beaucoup de chose ont du changer.

PS: bienvenu sur ce forum.:D

Submitted by jimbo.velo on Mon, 12/30/2013 - 21:19.

Here are the three pictures of the Vintage Perfect Tricycle 1931

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Submitted by JCCMCGREGOR on Mon, 12/30/2013 - 21:51.

Hello Jimbo,sorry I have no info to help with any history,possibly a limited production run years ago as a promo or an internal goverment job as we say in Ontario albeit a nice one.Very cool how ever you look at it, as I am in envy since I am a hardcore doublebar type of guy, should be a proud piece for your museum congrats.Maybe you could think of showing your find and more at the 13th Annual Canadian Vintage Bicycle Show June 22/14?It will be interesting to hear what other members may know about this special Perfect tricycle.Thanks for sharing,Happy New Year Merci Jamie

Submitted by jimbo.velo on Fri, 01/03/2014 - 12:03.

Happy New Year, everyone,

thank you for the info up to now;

to bikedenis,

there is at least one collector of ancient bicycles in Joliette and I am the one ;Vincent Bicycle is still in operation and it is the fourth generation of the same family.

Submitted by jimbo.velo on Fri, 01/03/2014 - 12:56.

About that museum I have started at the high school (in occurence Barthelemy Joliette) the school has allowed an educator to use the old woodshop local to start a project of bike repair to help the students who had a hard time by giving them something to put their hands on. The educator had asked me to help with the project.When I retired, 8 years ago, I went to the school one day a week to teach the kids bike repairs and I started bringing the old bikes that I would put my hands on. Today, there are 30 bicycles at the school; 15 are hung on the walls or to the ceiling, the other 15 are awaiting some good will. Among those , there are three tandems,numerous double bars of the thirties and forties, an 1898 BSA that was a first experiment of springframe that I rode from my place to the school and the brake on this one is a drum brake with a brass shoe, an unpitted chrome frame of the late sixties with a Caqmpagnolo Valentino Extra and it is riding on something that combines tire and tube (what is the English term please), another one with wooden wheels and a New Hercules armless brake on the rear wheel that I place around 1910 to 1918 it is a loop frame no: E17170 maybe a Red Wing by the chainwheel. Istill have 15 at home and I keep looking for more; I am still missing a Flyte...