Frame

81138

UntracedLedger: sold

Marked "as prev order" — built alongside Amy Major's 81137, ordered the same day. Enamelled 7 December.

Ordered: 14-11-81
Tubing: 531 DB
Frame: 22½" touring
Top tube: 22"
Angles: 73° / 73°
Forks: 2 1/8" × 15"
Ends: Campag (eyes)
Chainstays: 17¼"
B/bracket: 10½"
Headset: Standard
Equipment: 27" & guards
Brazed on: As 81137
Finish: Emerald green enamel
Customer: Valerie Taylor, Lenton
Signed: S. Standard

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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 81138 — 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 81138.    ORDER REC'D 14-11-81
AS PREV ORDER.
22½ TOURING.    27" & GDS
ANGLES    73° 73°
T.T.    22"
ENDS    Campag (eyes)
C/STAYS    17¼"
S/STAYS
FORKS    2 1/8" × 15"
B/BKT    10½
H/SET.    STD
BRAZED ON  as 81137
FINISH  EMERALD GREEN enamel.
SOLD
CUSTOMER  VALERIE TAYLOR, LENTON, NOTTM.
(ACS 7 DEC)
S. Standard