Re: [CR]Stronglight 49D cranks

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From: "Hugh Thornton" <hughwthornton@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Stronglight 49D cranks
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:21:18 -0400


What is the model designation of the Stronglight steel cotterless cranks? Did they preceed the aluminum ones and when did they go out of production? Interested in any info. Thanks Hugh Thornton NW England


>From: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
>To: David Bilenkey <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca>, Classicrendezvous
><classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR]Stronglight 49D cranks
>Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:23:23 +0100
>
>The earlier Stronglight 49D cranks are quite a bit more slender and also
>have a more rounded profile than later ones. Alumninium 49Ds were
>introduced
>about 1937-8 - they are in the 1938 Constrictor catalogue. I have a pre-war
>British pair that are stamped Conloy, the trademark of Constrictor.
>Constrictor did not import them into England post WWII, Fonteyn started
>importing them again c1950. They were made until about 1985; until about
>1983 they used a unique to Stronglight 22.2mm extractor thread size.
>
>Hilary Stone, Bristol, England Summer appears to have now arrived with
>three
>continuous sunny days
>
>
>David Bilenkey wrote:
> > What makes these cranks:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2120856592
> >
> > an "old type"? What are the different features/details of the various
> > generations of these? What was the total range (years) that 49D cranks
>were
> > in production?