Re: [CR]JC Higgins v. Ted Williams Sport Racing...

Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 06:25:31 -0400
From: "Eric Goforth" <ewgoforth@earthlink.net>
To: 'Classic Rendezvous' <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]JC Higgins v. Ted Williams Sport Racing...
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Scott L. Minneman wrote:
> Looking at the other replies, the dates seem to work with the Higgins ->
> Williams switch at Sears, which happened in 1961 os so (although it took
> some time to percolate through all of the product lines, and I don't know if
> the bikes were an early or slower to adopt the new moniker).
>
> Scott Minneman
> San Francisco, CA, USA
>
>

I never realized JC Higgins was a Sears house brand, I always thought it was some other defunct mail order company. I found the following on Wikipedia:

The J.C. Higgins brand for Sears sporting goods was replaced with the Ted Williams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams brand. Many of the more durable J.C. Higgins products are still available as second hand items.

The brand name, J. C. Higgins, was based on a real person, John Higgins, a Sears employee from 1898 until his retirement as head bookkeeper in 1930. Higgins died in 1950. His expertise in sporting goods or sports is unknown.

-Eric

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Eric Goforth
Durham, NC, USA