I would say in my defence that the British Campagnolo importers, Holdsworthy Ltd always listed them as Nuovo Tipo I know this means New Type but so are many of the other names fairly meaningless too. And if one looks in Campagnolo catalogue 17 they are are also called Nuovo Tipo with a capital N and a capital T indicating use of a proper name as opposed to simply meaning new type. They are listed under the Gran Sport Group but so is the Record fron tmech which is called just that. Record in exactly the same manner as Nuovo Tipo is used. The three arm chainsets listed under Gran Sport are called Sport and the Nuovo Gran Sport rear derailleur is simply called that, Nuovo Gran Sport. I don't think the evidence can be much clearer than that. Regards Hilary Stone
Dale Brown writes:
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> BEFORE anyone gets their shorts in a bind, we discussed the use of the "Tipo"
> designation for these earlier in the CR and hopefully almost everyone knows
> that "Tipo" (literally meaning "type") perhaps was not the technically
> correct designation, but it has become widely used by Campyophiles and
> therefore is a good way, if imperfect, to describe these 2nd tier hubs,
> properly latter day Gran Sports?
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in reply to my original posting:
... The Tipo hubs were one notch down and essentially replace the Gran
Sport hubs which had steel centres. ...