"Don't forget that pretty much all pro bikes in the 1930s and '40s used cloth tape to hold the brake cable housing to the top tube (three bands or four even) instead of cable housing clips."
Thank you Chuck for that bit of info I'm starting on my "30s unknown racer " project and was curious about the cloth tape holdoing the cables down. I just thought it was some cheeseball alternative to clips.
Rick Gaytan
Yet another project in San Diego, CA