[CR]Questions about British painting and striping terminology

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 19:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Questions about British painting and striping terminology

Greetings, CR Mates---

First, many thanks to the CR Members who responded to my request for scans of Claud Butler catalogues from the ‘50s. You folks are great!

So, I’m looking at the 1954 CB catalogue, and in the back is a page called “Alternatives,” which lists the sundry variations a customer could choose from to alter his or her cycle from the standard single-color finish.

In addition to contrasting head-tube colors and box lining, etc., the page lists the following options, which, for ease of discussion, I number below:

1. PATH LINES.

2. SINGLE OR DOUBLE FEATHER LINES. [I’ve heard of “feathering” before, but what, in this context, does this mean, and what does a “feather line” look like?]

3. J.G. LINES.

4. CONTINENTAL PANELS. [This is not a simple contrasting band on the seat tube, for that option is listed elsewhere, separately.]

5. CROWN PANELS. [A wild guess here: Does it have something to do with the then-recent (1953) Silver Jubilee of the Claud Butler concern or with the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, also in ‘53? Or is it something entirely different?]

Not that I'm all that well versed in painting techniques, but I’ve never seen the above terms before. It seems that at least some of them might be industry terms and not specific to Claud Butler. Here's a link to the catalogue page containing the terms in question:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nkilgariff/

Do any of the CR sages know what they mean? Do any of you have photos of bikes which sport any one of these painting/striping effects?

Have any of the framebuilders/painters out there ever used these techniques?

There's always so much more to learn....

Warm regards all 'round,

Peter Jourdain Whitewater, Wisconsin The United States of America

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