A picture for Dale and for David Ross...
http://www4.tpgi.com.au/
from the archives ;
> From: Catherine Lunsmann <lunsmann@tpg.com.au>
> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:41:35 +1000
> Subject: [CR]Where in the world is Reynolds tubing?
>
> I have what I think is an interesting question concerning Reynolds 531
> tubing. The background to the question is that in 1938 two UK
> companies
> Tube Investments and Stewarts and Lloyds undertook a joint venture
> to build
> and operated a steel tube mill in Kilburn South Australia. The
> mill was
> known as the British Tube Mills (Australia) and became a large
> supplier to
> the Australian bicycle industry, particularly in the war years and
> post war
> period when tube could not be easily imported from Britain. Tube
> Investments was at the time the owner of the Reynolds brand names. An
> interesting ad for BTM product from 1952 shows the transfers used on
> bicycle frames made of their tube.
>
> http://www4.tpgi.com.au/
>
> Two of the transfers make reference to Reynolds and one of them
> refers to
> Aircraft Tubing Reynolds 531.
>
> This raises the question as to whether "Reynolds" tubing was produced
> anywhere else in the world?
On 21 Dec 2005, at 01:21, David Ross wrote:
I've just uploaded a photo of what I believe to be a pre-WWII
Reynolds "A" tubing transfer:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
Sorry for the poor photo of an incomplete transfer, but I hope it adds something to the discourse. The bike is a Super Elliott from Adelaide. If there's enough interest in this, I'll ask the buyer (who outbid me on it) if he's willing to share more photos.
Regards,
Dave Ross
Portola Valley, CA