CR Folk:
Some of the Reynolds transfers seem to have the 531 in quotes, thus: '531' -- as if to self-consciously emphasize that it's the trademark five-three-one and not just any old fivehundred-and-thirty-one. But there seem to be plenty of stickers from all eras without the punctuation. Is there a story there?
Last month I bought a set of water-slide Reynolds decals that I frankly suspected were reproductions (albeit old-and-crusty ones from the period) that came in a little plastic sleeve with an instruction sheet and they have the extra quotes. Then when I looked at my Jan '74 issue of Bicycling! to check out that DeRosa roadtest I noticed an ad for Reynolds tube sets that came with the same set, with quotes and all. Yet ads from '69 don't have quotes, and ads from the late 70's don't have quotes.
The CR page on Reynolds shows the '74 ad right at the top, and two other sets of transfers have quotes but the rest don't.
Is there some pattern? Were some tubesets more articulate than others?
Brad Stockwell Palo Alto
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