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Workshop sheet for Superbe frame 81103
Open the full sheetThe order sheet, as it was filled in, including whatever was written in the margins.

Frame

81103

UntracedLedger: sold

Mrs Doreen Leheup, 517 Nuthall Rd. FRAME No. blank. Matched to the ledger on eight fields once turned the right way up: 20½", chainstays 17½", bracket height 10½", EDCO headset, Mafac brazed-on brakes, lugs for a Carrimore carrier, black, lugs lined pale blue. Fed through the scanner upside down.

Ordered
17-4-81
Tubing
531 DB
Frame
20½" touring frame
Forks
2½" × 15¼"
Ends
Campag road
Chainstays
17½"
B/bracket
10½" bracket height
Headset
EDCO
Equipment
27" & guards, ¼" extra mudguard clearance
Brazed on
Mafac brakes, pip, Campag tunnels, lamp boss, brake eyes, TA bosses, lugs for Carrimore
Finish
Black, lugs lined pale blue, Superbe transfers
Customer
Mrs Doreen Leheup, Nottingham
Signed
S. Standard

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The workshop sheet for frame 81103
81103
1981 · 531 DB · 20½" touring frame · Black
Sid Standard Cycles · 35–37 Chilwell Road, Beeston
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In the book

The same frame in the bound ledger

Through 1982 the workshop kept two records of an order: a line in the bound book, and the printed sheet above. Both give this frame the same number and the same date. The book is the shorter of the two and the only one written in the shop itself.

The page in the bound ledger recording frame 81103
Bound ledger
As written

The page, line by line

Transcribed as it appears, including the abbreviations. Underlining and the red pencil struck across the job are on the sheet itself.

531 DB.
17-4-81.
FRAME NO 81103
20½" TOURING FRAME    ¼" EXTRA M/GD Clearance
CLEARANCE    ¼" EXTRA    27 & GUARDS
FORK.    2½" × 15¼"
CHAINSTAYS    17½"
ENDS    CAMPAG ROAD
BKT HT.    10½"
BRAZED ON.    MAFAC BRAKES, PIP, CAMPAG TUNNELS,
LAMP BOSS, BRAKE EYES, TA BOSSES, LUGS FOR CARRIMORE
B BKT SET.    STRONGLITE WITH LINER
HEAD SET.    EDCO.
COLOUR. BLACK. LUGS LINED PALE BLUE.
SOLD  Superbe trans.
Customer  Mrs Doreen Leheup, Nottm.
S. Standard.