[valdo]

Hello Kass, look at Valdo ´39 Crescent, it´s stainless steel in mudguards and rims, im sure. Despite Nymans high production during these years, 14-15000 a month, very few bikes remains, so it´s nice to see more of them in other countries than sweden.

I have collected vintage bicycles almost for 27 years. As far I know, then Swedish internal market bicycles are usually made using painted rims and mudguards. But a lot of these bicycles which were made for export to Estonia are made using chromed rims and mudguards. I have almost 300 bicycles and up to 25-30 of them are made in Sweden (only some of them are in good order and/or restored).

All of these bicycles have the rims-mudguards made by prdinary steel but they are chromed. I have 2 such Crescents, 2 Vegas, at least 6 Husqvarna, 1 Hermes and 3 Monarks. I suppose that the parties that were made for Estonia is assembled and made in a specific way.

Of course there were soem Swedish bicycles from 1930s here in Estonia which have painted mudguards and rims but their' amount (among all Swedish bicycles) was about 10-20%, no more. And even these bicycles have made specially for Estonia, because Swedish inner market bicycles have usually rims for ordinary tyres 635 mm, but for Estonia all bicycles were equipped with 28" rims for beaded edges tires. Until early 1940s (until WWII) the usual bicycle tire standard in Estonia was beaded edges 28".