Re: [CR]Re Italian made simplex shifters

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PY-10)

In-Reply-To: <48BB89F6.90108@xtra.co.nz>
References: <48BB89F6.90108@xtra.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:13:36 -0700
To: Wayne Davidson <wayne.collect@xtra.co.nz>, CR <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re Italian made simplex shifters


At 6:21 PM +1200 9/1/08, Wayne Davidson wrote:
>Hi all, while going thru my stash I found that the twin shifter set
>made by Simplex, is marked made in Italy. All I can find out is
>probaly from early 50's, anyone else got a date range?.....regards
>wayne davidson Invers NZ........

When Fausto Coppi used Simplex shifters in the 1949 Tour de France, it was said that they were made in Italy. That provides a datapoint...

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