Forgive this ignorant US Rendezvouser for intruding in Brit affairs. I agree with Mark
It strikes me that BSA didn't need to sell to anybody and was at the top of the game. They were more than the equivalent of Campagnolo in terms of reputation and commanded a price premium for their products. Why rebadge?
Sixty years later the Brennan brothers habitually said "Genuine BSA".
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
USA
> Mick are you sure that Chater and Constrictor used badged up BSA hubs? I
am
> very doubtful of this.
> Lets not forget rivetted flange Airlites, Solites, Brampton's C5 and C28,
> Tabucchi, Blumfield, Simplex "Octagonal" and of course...Campagnolo. All
> this from a copy of Holdsworth's Cycling Aids 1936. Claud Butlers had
their
> own brand hubs which were possibly BSA, not sure.
> Mark Stevens, wet and windy in Dingwall, the weather that is.
> Scotland.
>
> ..may the sun and the wind be at your back...