Kin Klakow aske dabout the origin of the non-gear train parts of the Huret groupset
These items were not particularly commonplace in France..their most
common occurence being in the monthly magazines. I have trie dto gather
together bits and pieces and now havr just about everyting but the hubs.
>From what I know ...and from various assumptions... I suggest that the
chainsets were often made by Ets. Perrin, who made Nervar sets, the hubs
were made sometimes by Ets Perrin Pelissier, who made the Exeltoo and
Pelissier brands, although some later hubs..still in Huret time, not
Sachs, were a collaboration with Ets Maillard, as were some of the
pedals. The 60/70s brakes were always made by CLB-Angennieux, a company
which in its later and final years was managed by a charming elderly
lady who always seemed to wear a fur coat... or at least she did on the
occasions I met her.
Although most of Huret's factories were based in the northern part of
France, they seemed to source their groupset parts from in and around St
Etienne part from the Maillard parts. Later of course, Huret and
Maillard came together within the Sachs group.
A quick examination of the suppliers suggests that Huret never formed
any part of the SPIDEL group of companies that combined to try to
compete with the Japanese in producing a collaborative grouset - much
like Suntour had to do in the face of competition from Shimano.
Norris Lockley..Settle UK