Frame

8724

Untraced

The first of two frames ordered by the same customer on the same day; 8725 is the other. The attachment page is a pencil geometry sketch on lined paper: the top tube marked “22¼ middle to middle”, a queried seat angle “73.5°?” against a head angle of “73°”, the seat tube “23" top of top tube”, and a stay dimension beginning “16"” with its figures scribbled over, ending “to end of tube start of drop out with short campag”, the word “long” struck out. Sideways in its margin is written “531 C. Sprint Clearance only.” The sketch angles differ from the 74 / 73 on the sheet. A deposit is recorded simply as “Yes”, and the surname could as easily be MacDonell as Macdowell.

Ordered: 2 Oct 87
Tubing: 531c
Frame: 23"
Top tube: 22¼
Angles: 74 / 73
Forks: 1⅜" rake; Cinelli fully sloping lugged crown; all front forks chrome
Ends: Campag Super Record
Chainstays: Short as pos.
Seatstays: Fast-back
B/bracket: 10⅝
Headset: Tange (“Customer” struck out)
Wheels: Sprints (H.P.'s struck out), no mudguard clearance (the printed “YES” struck)
Brazed on: Gear lever bosses, cable run “under B.Bkt” (written above the brazings line), brake eyes (two), TA bottle cage bosses
Finish: “Samples. to follow.”; lugs lined
Customer: Mr Macdowell, Matlock

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One more page in the folder

Kept in the folder with the worksheet and scanned with it: the build written out and ticked off as it was fitted, a letter, a sketch, the second side of the sheet. The worksheet is the record; these are what was going on around it. Tap one to read it full size.