Originally Posted by
T-Mar
There is a Maxwell Fietsen company in the Nethlands (
https://www.maxwellfietsen.com/ ) that could be related. While their current product line is solely e-bicycles, that could have have been a strategic, marketing move. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any company history on their site.
Also, from a Dutch Wipedia entry:
"Maxwell is a historic Dutch brand of bicycles, transport tricycles and motorcycles.
A. Druyf & Co., later Maxwell Rijwielfabriek A. Druyf & Co., Amsterdam.
This Dutch brand made transport tricycles with Gillet blocks in the 1930s and also sold complete motorcycles. These were probably Gillet products that were provided with other transfers. From 1954 to the early 1960s, mopeds were made with Austrian HMW blocks.
The bicycle factory was located at Oudezijds Voorburgwal 131"
Correct.
For future reference, prominent clues that this bike is Dutch are:
- the white paint on the rear fender (minimum of 30cms) was mandatory until 1995, a few years after the rear reflector had become a legal requirement
- the rectangular rear reflector, introduced in 1979
- the sidewall reflection on the tires. Side reflection was a requirement from 1987 onward
- the Dunlop valves, standard on almost all Dutch bikes
- the ring lock - the standard lock for Dutch bikes
- the coat protectors. Dutch ride their bikes in the rain, wearing their rain coats ...
The aluminum rims and fenders are a bit out of character. Most bikes like these had painted steel fenders and indestructible stainless steel rims (Van Schothorst!)