Bruce,
I really don't know anything about bicycles from the 1940s or earlier
outside France. However, I do remember a thread about "when did
triples become available" a number of months ago on this list. Maybe
you can find the answer to your questions in the archives. Does
anybody else know more?
--
Jan Heine, Seattle
Editor/Publisher
Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
http://www.mindspring.com/
> > Jan Heine wrote:
>> Triples, while widely available from the 1940s onwards, often were
>> considered superfluous, because hardly anybody needed that many
>> gears.
>
>Jan,
>
>Apart from French cranks, were there any others that were widely
>available as triples pre-1950? I can't remember seeing any
>British-made cranks from the 40s set up as triples but I probably
>haven't been looking hard enough.
>
>Bruce, one of those who needs that many gears
>in Dundee
>Scotland
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