I have a 1929 Stenton catalogue, in which the solo framesets all have forward-facing dropouts.
Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England
>From: StuartMX4@aol.com
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Re: Drop-outs
>Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:32:09 EDT
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>
>Sheldon wrote
>
>"I believe dropouts were only invented in the 1940s, or maybe '30s,
>before then all bikes had rear-opening fork ends."
>
>I feel distinctly nervous about disageeing with Sheldon, but is he right?
>If
>you are suggesting that they were rare in the thirties, Sheldon, I would
>suggest otherwise. There were plenty of forward facing dropouts in the
>thirties;
>I am looking at some now on an Oscar Egg and catalogues show Super
>Champion,
>Simplex and Cyclo derailleurs in them. I am pretty sure that they appeared
>first (?) in the twenties. I fully expect to get my knuckles rapped for my
>presumption. As a lover of final quotations, I hope you find mine
>apposite.
>
>Stuart Tallack in Great Britain
>
>``I think it a shame when the worthy Homer nods; but in so long a work it
>is
>allowable if drowsiness comes on.''
>Horace
>
>And for elderly Britons, I would add, "What did Horace say, Winnie?"
>Harry Hemsley