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Generally for Estonian market Swedish bicycle factories produced black bicycles with chromium-plated mudguards and rims.

One of my Hermes frames (without audentic nr.) had painted narrow mudguards with the "sides", the first one looks

http://i43.tinypic.com/11jx0mo.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/mb7091.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/s482m9.jpg

Another had narrow painted "ordinary" rear mudguard with only narrow gold stripes (I must check it out , may be I lie and it wasn´t from Hermes?).

I continue with my hermes mudguards
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http://i41.tinypic.com/rv8wfl.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/35auide.jpg

Yes, this one is from Hermes too. And painted and bouth are narrow, 48 - 49 mm, perhaps they had rims for tyres with wire, not "vulstfelge"?
And no stripes have survived, only very little gold ones (not narrow, it´s seems, but can´t find any red colour).

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Can anyone give me more info on how many bikes where imported and during what time period? Why are there so many around 1939?
How many are left? What brands were imported?

I would like to give more info, but I haven´t.
What brands were imported - that is the easy question. As I said, main brands were Husqvarna, Monark, Hermes, Crescent, Vega (had the main dealer in Estonia Arnold Ungerson and he put his labels to the Vegas but there were not this labels on other Nymans bikes, they had other dealers). And Nordstjernan army and perhaps civilian bikes...
The quantity of the bikes in Estonia made a great rise in the second part of 1930-s. The number of 1939-s Nyman bikes can be connected with some dealer who exported them from Sweden? Perhaps there was something with the export from Germany in 1939???
We haven´t look the Husqvarnas and Monarks production years yet?
And some of the 1939-s bikes were so new before the beginning of the soviet occupation and war between Soviet Union and Germany and thei were hided and so they survived till our days?
The Husqvarnas were sold in Estonia already in the first part of 1930-s and perhaps in 1920-s too, there is a commercial in Estonian language from Otto Eggers who sold Husqvarnas type Nr. 101 with rear hubs "Rapid N" or "MIKADO". (The prices are written by hand and thei are in est. marks, it means it is before the 1926, then the est. kroons became).The mudguards and "westwood" rims (colour Nr. 9) were black with gold stripes...
(I have 2 lists and i guess there must be some more, about the lady´s model too..)

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What we have about the import bikes

1936 were imported 9874 bikes, registrated were 102757
1937 21058 132090
1938 28088 161313
1939 7 months 21983
http://eag.vanatehnika.ee/ewrattad.html

We can find the dealers of some Swedish brands in Estonia from the commercials.