Re: [CR] Reynolds '531' Decal Questions

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:44:27 -0800
To: Bob Angle <bobangle@cableone.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Reynolds '531' Decal Questions


At 2:45 PM -0700 11/30/09, Bob Angle wrote:
>Much has been discussed about the 531 decal but I have seen nothing about
>the little triangles flanking the 531. Bob Hanson pointed these out to me
>some time back. I think they are single quote marks and would be "proper English". They seem to have appeared late 60's early 70's

At least the French-language version had the triangular quotation marks in 1951 and 1952... but they were gone in 1974.

Jan Heine
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