excellent tidbit of information - im trying to glean stuff from the list for my new taylor page as fast as i can! i think its going to suffer from being a bit irregular at first, as i sort through all the input and collate everything, but its all adding up, slow but sure...
keep it coming guys, and ill keep sorting through and putting it all together...
-joel
>Bob Freitas wrote:
>> [Taylor] TANDEM TUBE SETS were unique to them because they owned the
>> tooling to make it, thus you did not see it in use by other builders.
>
>I built lots of frames with Taylor tubing; it was sold by Reynolds to
>anyone, at least as early as '77 or so, when I first saw a Reynolds
>stocklist. I think Alex Singer tandems used Taylor forkblades (possibly
>other tubes as well), earlier than that.
>
>Maybe the exclusive arrangement was for a finite period and had expired by
>the time I got into it?
>
>Mark Bulgier
>Seattle, Wa
>USA
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