Re: 1918 735 wheel colors
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SSsssteamer (IP Logged)
Date: January 22, 2011 03:23PM
The wood wheels in the condensing car years were painted body color. The pin striping was a fine 1/8" to 3/16" wide stripe depending on the artist doing it. Each spoke had its own separate stripe. Two different ways I have seen the spokes striped: The spoke stripe is solid all of the way to the hub, or the stripe splits at about 3 1/2 " from the hub and flares out towards and terminating at the wheel hub. Three other circular pin stripes were place on the wheel. One around the hub by the hub cap, second around the hubs' flat flange centered between the hup bolts and the hub flange running its outside perimeter. The third stripe goes around the wood fellow and about centered on it. No other pin striping was to be found on the condensing cars. The color of the strip depended on the body color. A blue body had a dove gray stripe on its wheels. 1916 and 1917 Catalogs both say: "Body and wheel spokes called Russian Blue, with fine gray striping. Running gear except the wheel spokes, black without striping. Mudguards black enameled, without striping. Hood and radiator, header, Russian Body Blue". The 1918 Catalog says: "Regent Green, with running gear and fenders black". Surely the 1918 followed the same color locations as both the earlier and later years. The 1919 catalog offers different choices of body colors: green, gray, and blue, with black mudguards. Again, the wheels were body color. 1919 catalog says: "Body, hood, wheels, regent green;..." Vintage 1919 wheel spoke striping photos shows the spokes with a dart stripe without a split in it. Going by earlier years use, striping color of the wheels over the regent green should be using a straw yellow pin stripe. Black wheels? No mention of using black wheels in the Stanley literature from 1916 through 1919.