Folks I am really loosing it! I just said in my post about LeJeune that I had read a report from Fred DeLong but in fact, that report was right here on the CR list a few ago! It was our friend Fred Rednor who gave us this report! I just had a senior moment!
Here is Fred's REDNOR's report:
"I was at the factory some time after your frame was built (i.e. during 1983). I'm not certain that "factory" is necessarily the correct term as no frames whatsoever were being produced there. They were being built elsewhere by contract builders but were painted and assembled at the LeJeune facility in Maisons-Alfort. This was true for bikes of every quality level. They did have a large wheel building facility, though, with several automatic spoking machines and even a few human wheel builders. Anyway, it was my impression that frames were NEVER produced on-site; that they always had been produced for LeJeune by contract builders or custom ateliers for the team frames. After all, Mr. LeJeune was an ex-racer and not a real industrialist. I spoke with Marcel LeJeune about the frame building but my French wasn't so great at the time so I may have missed some of the subtleties of his answer but it was clear, as I mentioned above, that all frames were produced elsewhere. Best regards, Fred Rednor "
My apologies to Fred! And thanks to him for being such a great source for neat stuff like this!
Dale
Dale Brown
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