Bruce,
I am curious to hear about the seller - he also has a 1930 Raleigh Record and a 1952 Rotrax Shirley on Ebay. Any info. on these?
Paul Williams, Ottawa "sun shining but still bloody cold" ON, Canada
>
> Peter Naiman wrote re "Hobbs" on Ebay warning
>
> Paul: I'll got a late 1940 Hobbs of Barbican and possibly pictures of
Hobbs of
> the period from ad copy. If I can find the ad copy I'll look to see
> similarities in lug work, and also compare to mine, but I'm not sure if
the
> lug design changed from late 40 to mid 50s.
>
> > Peter Naiman
> > Boston, Mass
>
>
> I'd earlier written:
> > > There's a guy called Paul Cameron offering what he claims to be a
Hobbs of
> > > Barbican bike on Ebay (number 2161914287). The frame number he has
listed
> > > doesn't fit in with any of the configurations known to VCC marque
> enthusiast
> > > Mervyn Cook. It is therefore extremely unlikely that this bike is a
Hobbs.
> > > I've emailed Paul to let him know. It will be interesting to hear his
> > > response.
>
>
> Pete,
>
> The lugs are Nervex Pro which Hobbs did use in the 1950s. The problem is
so
> did everyone else so it's hard to get any clues from the lugwork. Hobbs
> stopped building their own frames in the mid-1950s although they stuck
their
> transfers on some third party frames for a wee while after that. It's
possible
> that the Ebay frame is one of those but I don't know of any way to tell.
I've
> got a bit of background information about the seller which I can pass on
> off-list to anyone who is interested.
>
> Bruce
> Dundee
> Scotland