Peter Kohler wrote:
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> A Henry Dreyfuss (the American industrial designer who gave the us the Bell
> & Howell thermostat, most of our telephones, the Hoover etc.) would marvel
> at the elegant simplicity of the components on an 1950s Ephgrave, the alloy
> GB brakes, the gentle curve of the brake levers, the fluted cranks, the
> simple perfection of Conloy Asp rims etc. These are perfect industrial
> design icons individually. Collectively mounted on a frame finished and
> designed to the same sympathy of era and style and you get a profoundly
> elegant but still practical machine of the highest order. But a Henry
> Dreyfuss would scratch his head at those Gothic lugs and lettering and
> wonder why?
I worked for Henry Dreyfuss and the reality was that there wouldn't have been much on any bike that he wouldn't have tried to improve. ;)
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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