The answer may depend partially on what you call a Simplex hub. I have a rear track hub, I think from the 50's that appears identical to a Campagnolo 3-piece hub except that it is inscribed FB with some sort of a bird on a wheel logo and also with the stylized Simplex name/logo. Seeing as how FB made Campagnolo hubs, this is clearly a similar hub made for Simplex. I have another pair of hubs from the 70's languishing in the attic, where I can't now get at them easily, which are not marked Simplex, but which have Simplex quick release skewers. I think the hubs themselves looked like standard Normandy/Maillard pieces -- they came off a Gitane gaspipe bike and I don't know if they would have been marketed as Simplex. It seems to indicate that Simplex may not have made hubs themselves.
Hugh Thornton Nantwich, Engaland
In a message dated 23/10/02 14:46:01 GMT Daylight Time, hayesbikes@nls.net writes:
> 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?