you've done a great job here, Joel, in turning up the Crozet advertisement. Now at least I know what the AC means, know that my superb unidentified frame could have been as early as 1939.. but I still cannot discover the maker. The headlugs on my frame are more ornate than those in the ad. - more like Van Est's Garin -if in fact it was a Garin - and the bracket is pure 100% Nervex Pro. Top-eyes are more elegant too. Last week I was working on the possibility of it being an Oscar Egg, but the 30s Egg on the Swiss (Speedicycle) website has an engraved fork crown.
In a couple of weeks time I shall be passing through St Etienne, around it's "rocade/peripherique" on my way to Montelimar. If I can manage to get my wife to stop "poolside" for a day, I intend to take the return route over the legendary Col de la Republique to visit France's former "bike capital". it's a great drive and only about one and a half hours. Intend to visit the Museum of the Velo there... and get into its permanent collection. I did a similar pilgrimage two years ago.. hell is it really two years already... and tried to find all the old factories of Cyclo, Nervar. Mercier, Automoto, Manufrance, Cazenhave etc to make a photographic memoire.. so this time I will add Crozet's address to the list. The French don't go much into demolition of old factories soI found quite a lot of them eg Maxicar, Gauthier, Perache, Lyotard etc in the suburbs and local small towns.
Norris Lockley... wondering whether I should take my beret this time...Settle UK