Re: [CR]Cromor and Tre-Tubi/now tubing stickers

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

From: <NortonMarg@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:34:03 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Cromor and Tre-Tubi/now tubing stickers
To: fred_rednor@yahoo.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 12/22/03 9:03:29 AM Pacific Standard Time, fred_rednor@yahoo.com writes:
> Comment: I just want to reiterate that in the '50s and '60s
> (and even the '70s) many really high quality frames had no
> tubing labels whatsoever. The handful of older Italian frame
> builders that I had ocassion to meet viewed that sort of thing
> as a British affectation.
>

I have a 1961 Bianchi and a 1958 (or so) Frejus that both have red Columbus tubing stickers. I think it was not so much a British thing as a manufacturer's thing. Reynolds wanted people to KNOW that a frame was built with Reynolds, likewise with Columbus. It's marketing.
Stevan Thomas
Alameda, CA