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Workshop sheet for Superbe frame 81136
Open the full sheetThe order sheet, as it was filled in, including whatever was written in the margins.

Frame

81136

UntracedLedger: sold

Order received 16 November and marked "wanted Xmas". Enamelled 7 December.

Ordered
16 Nov
Tubing
531 DB
Frame
19½" × 27" sloping top tube (racing)
Forks
1 7/8" × 14 3/4"
Ends
Super Record with eyes
Seatstays
½"
B/bracket
10 5/8"
Headset
Standard
Equipment
700c & guards, sprints only
Brazed on
Tunnels underneath, stop, pip, TA bosses, 3 guides top of top tube
Finish
Canary yellow enamel, black lug line, Superbe transfers
Customer
Bill Stanley, Melton Mowbray
Signed
S. Standard

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The workshop sheet for frame 81136
81136
1981 · 531 DB · 19½" × 27" sloping top tube (racing) · Canary yellow enamel
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 81136
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.
Order rec. 16 NOV
Wanted Xmas.
FRAME NO 81136
SPRINTS ONLY
19½" × 27" Sloping T.T. (RACING)  700C & GDS
ANGLES
T.T.
ENDS    SUPER RECORD WITH EYES
C/STAYS
S/STAYS.    ½"
FORKS    1 7/8" × 14 3/4.
B/BKT.    10 5/8".
H/SET.    STD.
BRAZED ON. TUNNELS UNDERNEATH  STOP, PIP.
T.A. BOSSES.  3 GUIDES TOP OF T/T.
FINISH.  CANARY YELLOW Enamel
Black lug line
Sup. Transfers
SOLD
CUSTOMER.  Bill Stanley, Melton Mowbray.
(A.C.S. 7 DEC)
S. Standard