Giotto Cinelli produced Stems and bars as well as custom fitaments in his Florence shop until the early 1950's. My 1948 Legnano has a Cinelli-Firenze stem. I ahave seen only one other bike with this stem, a 1951/2 Masi. Cino moved to Milan in the late 40's. Headbadges on his cycles includes both the Milanese as well as Fiorentine coats-of-arms.
>From: "Takao Noda" <tanoda@d1.dion.ne.jp>
>To: "Classic Bike List" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] Cinelli stem timeline and questions?
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:26:18 +0900
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>Chuck Schmidt wrote:
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> > Cino Cinelli (pro for seven years, won Tour of Lombardy and the
>'43
> > Milan-San Remo) started making steel bars and stems in 1946.
>He took
> > over the operation from his older brother Giotto, who made them
>before
> > WW II.
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>I found both Giotto Cinelli and Cino Cinelli participated in
>Milano Show 1948. But on the list of Milano Show 1949 I found
>only one Cinelli. Was Giotto Cinelli in Florence or in Milan?
> Takao Noda
> Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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