Curse me...I should stick to cards produced south of the Canada/United States border. But I still should have known that the 1934 WWG set only comes with the French/English back.
Bilingual only does make sense for the 1934 WWG set...those Canadians had plenty of time to translate the English text, since the first 48 cards in the 96 card 1934 World Wide Gum set (numbers 1 to 48) are from the 1933 Goudey set, while the second group of 48 cards (numbers 49 to 96) are card numbers 1-48 in the 1934 Goudey set. Perhaps in 1934 they determined they could issue just the bilingual version for the whole country, and easily translate the first 48 1934 Goudey cards after their production.
Brian
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