Group--- In Bob Reid's prior post, he mentions Gerald Nutland Burgess--- Since most of us think (I did for years) that the "GB" on stems, bars, brakesets, etc. stands for "Great Britian" or something, it really stands for the creator and manufacturer, Gerald Burgess!
I have a set of Resillion steel cantelevers on my pre-war Claud Butler, and alloy ones on my '48 MacLean. Both framesets were obviously built with these brakesets in mind, as neither have holes drilled in the fork crown or seat stay bridge for brake mounting.
Cheers-- Nelson Miller--- Seattle
>notice post-war that the world was passing them by and 'improvements' such
>as locking levers (a desperate idea anyway) and aluminium brake levers were
>no competition for the lightweight products of one Gerald Nutland Burgess.
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>Bob Reid
>Stonehaven
>Scotland
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