![]() FRAME 18" OR 10" counter braced, container brackets cantilever construction, which carries the.If large basket or no basket is wanted, specify on order. Many dealers have built up a profitable business running Cycle Trucks to merchants on a weekly Make a special effort to introduce this economicalĭelivery truck to a local enterprising merchant and watch the idea spread and the orders roll in. Of hard, heavy-duty, trouble free service. The Schwinn Cycle Truck is sturdily built to withstand years The Cycle Truck is low-geared for easy riding with the parking stand in front directly under The basket is fastened in theįrame and carries up to 150 pounds at safety without interesting with the front wheel and The Schwinn Cycle Truck wasĭesigned especially for fast, local, neighborhood delivery service. To the handlebars, such makeshifts are a manage on the highways. The Cycle Truck is not an ordinary bicycle with a basket fastened The Schwinn Cycle Truck has solved this problem for progressive merchants from one end of This is particularly true of Grocery, Drug and Hardware Stores, of Meat Markets, Florists and Beverage stores, where compititionįor surivival largely depends opun fast delivery service. In the more highly competitive helds at retail selling the difference between profit and loss is generally measured in terms of service. Paying one too if you show the boss your Cycle-Truck! You won't have to look long for a delivery job and a good The Cycle Truck is heavy-duty built throughout to keep you from having upkeep expence. It's inįront-easy to get at when you're parking and it locks the front fork so that the front wheelĬannot turn and cause the cycle to fall over. The basket in mounted on the frame, not on the handle-bar, and doesn't interfere with steering when loaded. Will still turn just easily as if it were empty! You can put up to 150 pounds in the basket, and the front wheel Evenings and Saturday, or during the summer vacation, you'll get more work,īe able to handle more in less time, and get paid more for it if you have the right deliveryīike, which is the Schwinn Cycle Truck. So you're going into business for yourself! That's fine- and the best of luck to you ! 1940 Schwinn Cycle-Truck Boys can earn money by making deliveries for grocery, butchers, chain stores, etc. 1939īoys can earn money by making deliveries for grocers, butchers, chain stores, etc. Here is how Schwinn described the Cycle Truck. This page provides year by year images and information about the Cycle Truck delivery bicycle quoted from Schwinn catalogs. So first sign that Irma isn't coming here I may just HAVE to slip on down to the thrift store and see if Heavy Duti is still there.The original Schwinn Cycle Truck was made between 1939 to 1967. ![]() I'd hate to buy that bike only to have to leave it behind if we have to evacuate and/or risk it getting damaged at my place. Thing is, Hurricane Irma is coming and could take a swing north to NC. Man, I want to go back to that store and get that bike! Prior to that it was spelled DUTY and after '72 the Heavy Duti was only listed in yellow. Going by color and the spelling of the word Duti vs Duty, it looks like black Duti's were only made 1 year, 1972. Then I find an online reference for Schwinn catalogs. That bike, if it isn't too tall for me would be great for carrying my heavy duty frame around! LOL Now I can't get it out of my head! Been doing some online research and found the name Heavy Duti meant just that. They wanted $69 for it and I laughed at such a high price for a rusty old bike and walked away. In the bike rack out front was a black Schwinn Heavy Duti with rusty chrome fenders. Over the past holiday weekend, my wife and I were looking in a local thrift store.
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