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Workshop sheet for Superbe frame 81122
Open the full sheetThe order sheet, as it was filled in, including whatever was written in the margins.

Frame

81122

UntracedLedger: sold

Order received 13 August 1981; enamelled 16 September.

Ordered
13-8-81
Tubing
531 DB
Frame
25¼" touring
Top tube
22½"
Angles
73° / 73°
Forks
15" × 1 7/8"
Ends
Campag Record with eyes
Chainstays
17¼"
Seatstays
5/8"
B/bracket
10 5/8"
Headset
Tange
Equipment
27" with mudguards
Brazed on
Pip, tunnels 10 speed, lamp boss, Mafac bridge, brake eyes, TA bosses
Finish
'Royal' maroon, shade to be provided
Customer
Mr David O'Dell, Breaston, Derbyshire
Signed
S. Standard

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The workshop sheet for frame 81122
81122
1981 · 531 DB · 25¼" touring · 'Royal' maroon
Sid Standard Cycles · 35–37 Chilwell Road, Beeston
A print of the 81122 sheet, framed — to scale above a two-metre sofa

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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 81122
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.
FRAME NO 81122    Order rec'd 13-8-81.
25¼" TOURING.    27" with Mudguard.
ANGLES    73° 73°
T.T.    22½
ENDS    Campag Record with eyes.
C/STAYS    17¼"
S/STAYS    5/8".
FORK.    15" × 1 7/8"
B/BKT.    10 5/8"
H/SET.    Tange.    BRAKES    2000 Mafacs.
BRAZED ON  Pip, tunnels 10 Speed, lamp boss,
Mafac Bdg. Brake eyes. TA Bosses.
FINISH  'Royal' Maroon (shade to be provided)
SOLD
CUSTOMER.  Mr David O'Dell, Breaston, Derby's.
A.C.S. 16-9-81.
S. Standard.