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Workshop sheet for Superbe frame 81133
Open the full sheetThe order sheet, as it was filled in, including whatever was written in the margins.

Frame

81133

UntracedLedger: sold

Centre-pull brakes noted in red as needing a long column. Enamelled 27 November.

Ordered
Nov 5 '81
Tubing
531 DB
Frame
24" touring
Top tube
22½"
Angles
73° / 73°
Forks
15" × 1 3/4"
Fork type
S/L forks
Ends
Campag with eyes
Chainstays
17¼"
Seatstays
5/8"
B/bracket
10 5/8"
Headset
Standard
Equipment
27" & guards
Brazed on
Handlebar cone eyes, Campag tunnels, chainstay eye, brake eyes RHS, TA bosses, lamp boss, centre-pull bridge
Finish
Bronze poly (as A. Gill), lug line, Superbe transfers
Customer
Rob Smith, Wollaton
Signed
S. Standard

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The workshop sheet for frame 81133
81133
1981 · 531 DB · 24" touring · Bronze poly (as A. Gill)
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 81133
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 81133    NOV 5 '81
24" TOURING.    27" & GDS
ANGLES    73° 73°
T.T.    22½
ENDS    Campag with eyes.
C/STAYS    17¼"
S/STAYS    5/8"
FORK    15" × 1 3/4"
B/BKT    10 5/8"
H/SET    STD.
C/PULL BRAKES.    long column!
BRAZED ON
H/BAR CONE EYES, CAMPAG TUNNELS, C/STAY EYE,
BRAKE EYES RHS. TA BOSSES, LAMP BOSS
C/PULL BRIDGE
FINISH  BRONZE POLY (AS A. GILL)
LUG LINE  SUPERBE TRANS
SOLD
CUSTOMER  ROB SMITH, WOLLATON
ACS 27 NOV
S. Standard