Message: 4 "Feeken, Dirk" <dirk.feeken@sap.com> wrote, in a wonderful note that I have <snipped>,
"The other one is an ever better looking and finished english rear hub with oil injection port and more elaborate looking seals. It's engraved with "HARDEN ...Industries Notthingham...PAT.596173 MADE IN ENGLAND". It has 120mm sacing but a very long axle."
I have a low-flange Harden (40 hole) my friend Jim Papadopoulos gave me. A beautiful sealed hub with grease nipple, British, but I know little else about them. I gave the "mate," a hi-flange Harden 32 hole, to Dale Brown a couple of years ago, for a 26" wheel restoration he was doing.
As far as I'm concerned, Hardens are real keepers, if just a conversation pieces. Deserve to be tied to Constrictor rims with superlight butted spokes like the 15/17s I think I remember....
harvey sachs mcLean va
harvey sachs