11-08-2015, 09:26 AM
Hello, Pete! Welcome to forum and thanks for the info!
There are a lot of small-talk in this topic and a little serious info. There is a photo from November 1928 with the Wiklunds bicycles in Estonian Army, this is the earliest date what I have seen. It seems, that there was at least 2 lots/sets of Wiklunds army bicycles in Estonian army. All photos, what I have seen are with the earliest bicycles and I don´t know any preserved bicycle or frame of this type. From the other, latest type, we know 3 frames with nr. H13369, H13398, H13463 but I haven`t seen this type in photos (the chain-wheel / sprocket with the letters AWMV and with the spoon brakes actuator stem in the handlebars tube like M42 has).
Yes, the Estonian army bicycles had chrome (or nickel? the earliest type?) - plated details and wheels for vulst-tires (as all Estonian bicycles and bicycles made for export to Estonia). How many Wiklunds bicycles the Estonian Army had - we don´t know, but there must be some numbers in archives. In 1940/41 Soviet Red Army took over the property of Estonian Army and we don´t know, what happened with the main quantity Wiklunds bicycles. We continue to study the story about Wiklunds army bicycles in Estonia!
There are a lot of small-talk in this topic and a little serious info. There is a photo from November 1928 with the Wiklunds bicycles in Estonian Army, this is the earliest date what I have seen. It seems, that there was at least 2 lots/sets of Wiklunds army bicycles in Estonian army. All photos, what I have seen are with the earliest bicycles and I don´t know any preserved bicycle or frame of this type. From the other, latest type, we know 3 frames with nr. H13369, H13398, H13463 but I haven`t seen this type in photos (the chain-wheel / sprocket with the letters AWMV and with the spoon brakes actuator stem in the handlebars tube like M42 has).
Yes, the Estonian army bicycles had chrome (or nickel? the earliest type?) - plated details and wheels for vulst-tires (as all Estonian bicycles and bicycles made for export to Estonia). How many Wiklunds bicycles the Estonian Army had - we don´t know, but there must be some numbers in archives. In 1940/41 Soviet Red Army took over the property of Estonian Army and we don´t know, what happened with the main quantity Wiklunds bicycles. We continue to study the story about Wiklunds army bicycles in Estonia!