Frame

2286

Untraced

“Columbus S/L” is written above the printed heading. Deposit recorded as “YES (7617)”, which looks like a receipt number; no delivery date was promised. The attachment page is a costed build list held to “£450-00 MAX” underlined: Simplex gear levers, Cyclone MkII gears, 600 brakes and chainset, Miche black pedals, toeclips and straps, a Laprade seat pin, a white Turbo saddle, Cinelli bars and stem (66 x 42), Sedis chain, Ribbon bar tape, the frame at £185 and wheels built up from parts, most items ticked off, totalling £446.00 with “£500” scrawled beside the sum. The surname is read from a fast hand and could as easily be Woodiweiss.

Ordered: 20 May 86
Tubing: Columbus S/L
Frame: 23½"
Top tube: 22½"
Angles: 73° / 73°
Forks: 1½" x 14½", Cinelli crown (lug)
Ends: Super Record
Seatstays: Fastback
Headset: STD
Wheels: Sprint clearance (H.P.'s struck out), no mudguard clearance (Yes struck out)
Brazed on: Gear lever bosses, all brazings for 12-speed (the printed “5/10” struck out and “12” written above), three brake cable guides to the top tube, TA bottle cage bosses (STD), Allen-key seat lug (Fastback)
Finish: Pearl white; purple forks, purple head (“faded” underlined, the word after it running off the sheet edge); lugs lined yes; new transfers (black)
Customer: David Woodiwiss, Attenborough

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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.