Listmember Chuck Schmidt sells a reprint of a 50's
Nervex catalog that will have you shaking your head
and muttering "I didn't know those were Nervex too."
David Feldman
--- "richardsachs@juno.com" <richardsachs@juno.com>
wrote:
>
> snipped:
> "In the late 40s/early 50s the Pro head-lugs did not
> have that readily
> identifiable little swirl..."
>
>
> i think the confusion is based in this: nervex, the
> firm, offered
> many MANY combinations of decorative elements with
> which the orderer,
> if there is such a word, could "design" his own
> sets. there had to be near 50 feature cuts for the
> main tube areas and almost as many for the area
> 'round the head tube. fwiw, some combos would have
> looked atrocious, but the one you're referencing had
> the all-to-familiar ref 49 decoration on the tubes
> but with a similar-but-slightly-different decoration
> on the head tube. in essence, there was a time that
> these lugs were made to order (for industrial
> use...) and i am sure that distributors in the trade
> also spec-ed some for resale.
> e-RICHIE
> chester, ct
>
>
>
>
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>
> -- "Norris Lockley" <Norris.Lockley@btopenworld.com>
> wrote:
> Sorry to read that Michael Butler is having
> difficulty finding framesets with these lugs down in
> the home county jumbles ; it's probably because I
> have most of them in my store!
>
> No joking, Michael... seven out of ten frames that I
> am offered are indistinguishable Nervex Pro ones. In
> France recently I happened upon a charity warehouse
> where, of the quality frames and bikes, four were of
> the Nervex Pro variety. All except one had been
> hand-painted to various levels of acceptabilty, the
> remaining one proudly bore a full livery of LOOK
> 1985/6 Hinault carbon frame decals, probably due to
> the fact that LOOK's warehouse was about 5 miles up
> the road.
> I tried diagnosing the frames from top-eyes and
> drop-outs but without much luck... and the longer I
> diagnosed, the more my impatient wife champed at the
> bit to hit the road....and me! She complains that I
> get on her Nervexes..
> One that I left behind had the best known Pro
> pattern lugs linked to ugly plate drop-outs
> reminiscent of cheap Peugeots...but something I saw
> since my return leads me to think that that is a
> rare frame. An equally unlikely looking frame, Pro
> lugs apart, was bought for the stronglight 57
> chainset that it sported.
>
> In the late 40s/early 50s the Pro head-lugs did not
> have that readily identifiable little swirl, but had
> instead two delicate little prongs.. and these can
> often be seen in the UK on Hill Specials, Mercians,
> some Flying Scots etc. The other curiosity that is
> Nervex and very Pro, in the bottom bracket and some
> other parts of the lug-set's cut-outs, is a set on a
> late40s/early 50s Cazenhave. That On the head tube
> the lugs resemble, in sde elevation, Bob Freemans
> mystery lugs, but on the front elevation they are
> exceptionally nonedescript. I've never come across
> these elswhere..but they're definitely Nervex... but
> they're not in the well-known 50s catalogue
>
> Does anyone out there have a catalogue., photo of
> such an early Nervex Pro pattern?
>
> Norris Lockley, Settle UK
>
>
>
>
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