Regarding Skip's enquiry about this set of tubing on the Romic frame, I can offer the following explanation.
I think it would be in the early 90s, at a time when Columbus was introducing all manner of exotic tube sets, and when Reynolds themselves had sunk into a complacent mood and had only responded to the Italian onslaught with not very well received sets such as the internally profiled and specially heat-treatd 708 Classic, and a few others at the cheaper end such as 500, and 525.
In order to "spice up" the range, so to speak, Reynolds introduced "Designer Select" which was , I quote "..carefully considered Mix and Matched components to produce sets which we have named to indicate intended use." Reynollds had selected six "use-specific" sets of tubes, bearing in mind gauges, lengths, type of seat-stay taper etc.. The sets were - Ladies Open Frame, Ladies Town and Country(Twin-lat), Paris-Roubaix (strong rider, rough roads) Sprint-Six (track) Longfellow (large frames not poets), Cyclo-Cross.
The blurb from Reynolds then goes on to advise that "constructors are at liberty to make up their own specification of frame tubes and manipulations..." from a very long list of options.
Way back in the 50s builders could choose from a variety of gauges of tubing depending on size of rider, weight, purpose etc, but all the tubing was labelled 531DB. Even in the 80s and 90s British builders (and perhaps other nationalities) were at freedom to select tubes at random from Reynolds' stock list, tather than just obtaining whatever came in the 531 Competition or ST box.
The 653 series that followed the fairly disasterous 531 SL and Pro series -themselves mixed and matched to an extent - was very succesful for Reynolds, possibly due to the colour of the label-similar to 753.
So Skip.. who knows what you have found brazed together in the Romic?
Norris Lockley
from a dreadfully wet and depressingly grey north of England.