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“531 C.” heads the sheet and a deposit is marked “Yes”. A telephone number on the Ripley exchange is written beside the name at the top of the sheet. The gear lever clip pip, lamp boss and centre-pull brake bridge entries are all struck out, the last over a written “Yes”. The other-details box reads “Check forks column length OK? No”, with “Fit front” scribbled out and “New column” written boldly beneath. At the foot is a small sketch of a cable run through a guide, labelled “bare” and “outer”, and a struck-through sketch sits in the top right corner.

Ordered

8.6.89

Tubing

531 C

Frame

22¼"

Top tube

22"

Angles

73° / 73°

Forks

Rake “in hand”

Ends

Short with eyes (a preceding word struck out)

B/bracket

Height 10¾"

Headset

Tange Std

Wheels

Clearance for sprints (H.P.'s struck out); mudguard clearance yes (no struck out)

Brazed on

H'bar control eyes “4 on top tube — 2 front (4"), 2 rear (4")” ticked, a stop “on L/H of head lug” (“bottom” struck out) ticked on the brazings line (“all” struck out), brake eyes “2 divers helmets, 1 top 1 bottom R/H seat stay (front of stay)” ticked, pump pegs “on L/H seat stay” ticked, TA bottle cage bosses “1 set on down tube, 1 set on seat tube” (written with corrections), A.K. seat lug “normal” (“yes” struck out)

Finish

Silver Poly; transfers Std “Old Type”

Customer

Roger Smith, Bagthorpe, Underwood

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1989 · 531 C · 22¼" · Silver Poly; transfers Std “Old Type”

Sid Standard Cycles · 35–37 Chilwell Road, Beeston