Frame
12853
“Complete cycle” is written across the top corner and “700c” underlined at the head: an order for a whole bicycle. Delivery promised Fri 29 Mar; the deposit line reads “see 6848”, pointing to another sheet. The attachment is a costed build list on the shop's own letterhead totalling £399: frame with Mafac-type brakes £190, double bosses and brazings for levers £15, G40 rims on Nuovo Tipo hubs 700c £75, Cyclone II gears £35, 48/36 touring chainset £27.50, SR pedals £8.50, Concor saddle (another make struck out) £14.50, SR bars and stem £11.50, Sedis chain £4.50, Bike Ribbon £2.50, narrow Esge guards £11.50, and clips and straps £3.50, most items ticked off.
- Ordered
- 20 Feb 85
- Tubing
- 531 DB, ‘C’
- Frame
- 21"
- Top tube
- 21½
- Ends
- Campag Record, eyes
- B/bracket
- 10⅝" height
- Headset
- STD
- Wheels
- 700c (sprints struck out), with mudguard clearance
- Brazed on
- Top-mount gear lever bosses, Campag tunnel brazings for 10-speed, 3 cable guides to the top tube, centre-pull brake bridge, TA bottle cage bosses; h'bar control eyes, gear lever clip pip, lamp boss and pump pegs are struck through
- Finish
- Orange flake “(as Sids)”, lugs lined, new transfers
- Customer
- W. A. Dzierzak, Chilwell
Own this sheet
£110
A high-resolution print of the sheet, not the original. Giclée on enhanced matte art paper, mounted in snow white, glazed, in a solid wood frame. Free UK postage. £15 goes to Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance.
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One more page in the folder
Kept in the folder with the worksheet and scanned with it: the build written out and ticked off as it was fitted, a letter, a sketch, the second side of the sheet. The worksheet is the record; these are what was going on around it. Tap one to read it full size.
