Yup! Maybe you're onto something about the Black Shirts, pre-war connection, because it's a black jersey!
Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Jeni and Dopolavoro team questions
> But, wouldn't a black shirt have been hot and
> uncomfortable to ride in on a warm Italian day?
> David Feldman
> Vancouver, WA
> --- "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "swampmtn" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
> > To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:54 PM
> > Subject: [CR]Jeni and Dopolavoro team questions
> >
> >
> > > Anyone familiar with the teams "Jeni" or
> > "Dopolavoro" from the 1940s or
> > > 1950s" Santini made reproduction jerseys of these
> > two teams for the RAI
> > > teve movie about Fausto Coppi, but I can't find
> > any further information.
> > > Perhaps single-race/single-rider criterium
> > sponsors?
> >
> >
> > Caro Aldo...
> >
> > Well anything related to Dopolavoro (literally
> > "After Work") is c. 1922-1945
> > or during the Fascist Era. When Mussolini forced the
> > dismemberment of the
> > old, communist trade unions, they were replaced by a
> > state-sponsored workers
> > organisation, Dopolavoro, which offered subsidised
> > health care, holidays,
> > daycare and yes sporting events including cycling it
> > seems. If someone is
> > recreating Dopolavoro jerseys (and if anything the
> > Fascists knew how to make
> > smart kit!)... it might be enough for me to buy a
> > '30s Italian lightweight!!
> >
> > Viva L'Italia!
> >
> > Peter Kohler
> > Washington DC USA
> >
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