Re: [CR]Simplex hub question:

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From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Simplex hub question:
References: <5.1.1.6.0.20021023094131.00b57328@mail.nls.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:02:02 -0700

Tom Hayes wrote:
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> Does anyone know when Simplex hubs were made, what variations of hubs
> existed--models and the differences among the variations? Of where on the
> internet one could find information on Simplex and hubs?

From Google.com search:

http://members.aol.com/~satorumas/brands/simplexMB552.html http://members.aol.com/~satorumas/brands/simplexitalyhubs.html http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Market_highs/Simplex_old_hubs.htm http://www.velo-retro.com/list.html

I think FB (Fratelli Brevio in Italy) started making hubs for Simplex - Italy in the very late 1940s. Shown in the Italian Simplex catalog in 1950 and in Evian England catalogs up through the mid 1970s.

Chuck "go Angels" Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California http://www.velo-retro.com (reprint vintage catalogs)

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