In the French Classic Components on Classic Rendezvous under the Huret section are three pictures of what is described as a 1948 Huret. It uses a double lever with the short one used as a tension lever for the chain. It looks very much like the "Competition Standard" in a 1951 Brown Brothers catalogue. In fact, sitting here with the mech in one hand and the book on my knee, I see they are identical, so that answers CR's question about the name. The price was only 22 shillings at a time when you could pay three times that much so they were perhaps selling what was already old and outdated stock. Does anyone have any information or advice on this derailleur? I would be grateful for even orts and fragments of help. Stuart Tallack in Sussex where the spring flowers are just breaking through.
"And it would be my joy to help my son, when the time came, to fit his bicycle with the best lamps, both front and rear, and the best bell and the best brakes that money could buy." Samuel Beckett
But it was only four pounds ten, brand new, for God's sake. Must be worth
hundreds to a collector now. Put it on eBay as a rare Franco Irish bicycle.
ST