Schwinn Corvette Bicycle, 1962
date: label: date made
content: 1962
name: label: maker
content: Arnold, Schwinn and Co.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1954, a year after General Motors introduced the Corvette sports car, Schwinn introduced the Corvette bicycle as a children’s model between heavy, chrome-laden imitations of motorcycles and lightweight bicycles designed for speed. Historians Jay Pridmore and Jim Hurd wrote, “The Corvette was the first of Schwinn’s middleweight bicycles, developed at a time when heavy cruisers like the Black Phantom seemed obsolete to kids who were now focused on increased speed, or at least the illusion of it.” This 1962 Corvette bicycle was a gift of Robert Ng, who rode it in the 1960s.
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
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content: Bicycling
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
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content: Road Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Robert Ng
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0108.01
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0108.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0108
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bicycle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 107 cm x 59 cm x 183 cm; 42 1/8 in x 23 7/32 in x 72 1/16 in