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Workshop sheet for Superbe frame 81123
Open the full sheetThe order sheet, as it was filled in, including whatever was written in the margins.

Frame

81123

UntracedLedger: sold

Ordered 13 August 1981 for delivery 30 September. Ordered care of Gerald Parsons, as was 81124.

Ordered
13-8-81
Tubing
531 DB
Frame
22½" touring
Top tube
22¼"
Angles
73° / 73°
Forks
1 7/8"
Fork type
S/L forks
Ends
Campag Record with eyes
Chainstays
17"
Seatstays
½"
B/bracket
10 5/8"
Headset
Tange
Equipment
27" & guards
Brazed on
Pip, Campag tunnels, TA bosses, brake eyes
Finish
Pearlised red (as Andrew's), Superbe transfers
Customer
John Bermingham
Signed
S. Standard

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The workshop sheet for frame 81123
81123
1981 · 531 DB · 22½" touring · Pearlised red (as Andrew's)
Sid Standard Cycles · 35–37 Chilwell Road, Beeston
A print of the 81123 sheet, framed — to scale above a two-metre sofa

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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 81123
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.    S/L FORKS.
FRAME NO 81123.    Order rec'd 13-8-81.
req'd delivery 30-9-81.
22½ TOURING.    27" & GDS.
ANGLES    73° 73°
T.T.    22¼"
ENDS    CAMPAG RECORD WITH EYES.
C/STAYS    17"
S/STAYS    ½"
FORK    1 7/8"
B/BKT    10 5/8
H/SET.    TANGE.    BRAKES    '600'.
BRAZED ON  Pip, Campag tunnels, T.A. Bosses.
Brake eyes.
FINISH  Pearlised Red (as Andrew's)
SUPERBE trans
SOLD
CUSTOMER.  JOHN BERMINGHAM, c/o Gerald Parsons.
A.C.S. 16-9-81.
S. Standard