[CR]Campagnolo Record derailleur, when new?

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:01:20 -0700
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine@mindspring.com>
Subject: [CR]Campagnolo Record derailleur, when new?

This probably has been settled long ago, but in case it hasn't - I found this looking through old magazines...

Daniel Rebour's article from the 1962 Salon du Cycle in Paris has a drawing and mentions: "The completely new CAMPAGNOLO, type "RECORD", etc." (my translation, original in French)

(Le Cycle, October 1962, p. 10)

The drawing very much looks like the Campy Record (chromed) derailleurs I have seen, so it may be the definite production model.

Please note that I am NOT claiming that the derailleur was available in 1962 or thereabouts.

Jan Heine, Seattle
Editor/Publisher
Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/index.html