Here’s a table of the codes and their manufacturing dates: When the B’s started out, they started with B10. It was a sequence consisting of a letter followed by two digits, starting with A10, followed by A11 and so on until A99. This system was used from Spring of 1959 to the end of 1965. Numbers mostly followed a three-digit format – often but not necessarily with a “P” as the prefix.īy early 1959, serial number 949 had been reached, necessitating a new system. Unfortunately, an office fire in 1948 destroyed the Paramount records. Little is known about serial numbers for bikes built after World War II. We found a very early Paramount – claimed to be a 1938-9 vintage – with serial number A545. This seems to have been a system started by Emil Wastyn. The very first Paramounts seemed to have had serial numbers starting with “A” followed by two or three digits.
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