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Bicycle frame material: steel bicycle type: kids brake type: coaster condition: good delivery available electric assist: none frame size: Child's 13' handlebar type: cruiser make / manufacturer: Sears model name / number: Free Spirit serial number: Unknown suspension: none (rigid) wheel size: 20 in. I have a free spirit with serial # 502 472760 T 283 837. I assume murray made it but not sure what year. Any ideas You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads. Sears & Roebuck Free Spirit 3 Speed Bicycle VINTAGE (405 USD) Vintage Sears Roebuck “Free Spirit” Bmx Bicycle (325 USD) Vintage Sears Roebuck “Free Spirit” Bmx Bicycle (273 USD) Vintage Free Spirit, 3 Speed Bicycle, Sears & Roebuck, FS3, Working Tires Brakes (201 USD). 0-8MPH. 2.0HP,STEPINCLINE,PROGRAMMABLESPEED. 831.297242 Serial No. The serial number can be found in the locationshown below. Write the serial number inthe space above. Serial Number Decal. F-.XRCIS' F' 0 U I p M E N T HELPLINE!

The Sears Roebuck and Company was responsible for some of the most outrageous and sought after bicycle designs. The Elgin Bluebird, Robin, Blackhawk, Flightlinger and Spaceliner were all Sears exclusives. Sears primarily used the Westfield Mfg. Co. and Murray Ohio Mfg. Co. to produce their special bicycles designs. Sears bicycles sold before World War II were branded as Elgin, and after World War II as J.C. Higgins.

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Many people ask if there was a real 'J.C. Higgins' who worked for Sears. There certainly was. John Higgins began working for Sears in 1898 as the manager of the headquarters' office bookkeepers and retired as company comptroller in 1930.

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'John Higgins' the employee became 'J.C. Higgins' the brand name during a discussion in 1908 among Sears' executives of possible names for a new line of sporting goods. At this point, the story gets a bit murky, but Higgins' name was suggested and John Higgins consented to Sears use his name. Since he did not have a middle initial, Sears added the 'C.'

In 1908, the Western Sporting Goods Company in Chicago began putting J.C. Higgins on baseballs and baseball gloves sold in Sears catalogs. By 1910, the J.C. Higgins trademark was extended to cover footballs and basketballs. Later, the popularity of the Higgins brand—combined with the wider participation of American youth in sports—led Sears to place tennis equipment, soccer balls, volleyballs, boxing equipment and baseball uniforms in the J.C. Higgins line.

By the 1940s, J.C. Higgins represented all Sears fishing, boating and camping equipment. After the Second World War, Sears consolidated all sporting goods under the J.C. Higgins brand name and added it to a line of luggage.

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The J.C. Higgins brand disappeared shortly after Sears introduced the Ted Williams brand of sporting and recreation goods in 1961.