The rear derailleur is a Simplex touring derailleur with exactly the same type of mount that I have just sold from my latest sales list on CR. The front mech is a quite rare type of Huret. The chainrings are Cyclo Rosa on the Williams cranks. The lugwork is unlike any other I have seen on a Macleans's and looks to be really quite nice. Maclean's frame numbers are stamped normally on the left hand side of the seat lug and that together with the date codes would probably enable me to date this bike fairly accurately. As of this moment I would guess this to be somewhere between 1948 and 1952. Maclean's were a highly respected builder originally founded about 1919. They continued in the same hands right through to the early 1960s when the name was bought by Holdsworthy Limited. Hilary Stone
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>From: "Mark Poore" <rauler47@hotmail.com>
>To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Maclean
>Date: Thu, May 3, 2001, 3:01 am
>
> Still no bids on this bike.
>
> Having come into bicycles in the early 60s and not having seen this type
> of derailleur/shifters before has my interest. Is it a Simplex? And is that
> a screen door spring pulling tension on the derailleur? Just maybe there
> will be a drive train similar to this one at the Cirque for closer
> inspection.