[CR]Pic of the Day - Seventy Years Ago

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From: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:38:11 -0400
Subject: [CR]Pic of the Day - Seventy Years Ago

Pic of the Day 6 April 2006 Seventy Years Ago - Toni Merkens

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Merkens1936

A man of many colours! Winner of the 1936 "Prix du Conseil Municipal", Germany's world amateur sprint champion Toni Merkens wears the winner's sash (in the colours of Paris) over his rainbow jersey, with Union Jack patches on the sleeves. Are the Union Jacks a nod to bike supplier Hetchins? From "Match l'Intran" No.508, 7 April 1936.

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio