I have long though that the sprockets on American built Meads looked as though they were built in England.I have several of these sprockets/& BB--very high quality.I knew that Mead had offices in England and sold fenders&chains from England.If you look close at Ebay # you can also see that the sprockets were made in England.http://ebay.com/<blah>
Anyway,early Meads were high quality bikes.
sam lingo pleasanton tx