[CR]Andre Crozet Lugs

Guess I can't spell. For sake of the archives, I've redone the email. Apologies all round...

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Thanks to Joel for the Crozet lug info - though now I'm confused !

This style of lug often turns up on pre-war (and some post-war) Flying Scots, and I always assumed they were by EKLA - for no other reason, than that was the name for them that I was given some years ago, and a couple of diagrams in Brown Brothers catalogues. They look not unlike those by Crozet. not exactly those in Joels advert vis; http://www.blackbirdsf.org/crozet.jpg as there are no cutouts to the front of the head lugs perhaps peculiar to this particular model, but in other aspects they seem the same.

This page I used on the site to illustrate the Ekla lugs ; http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/frame_dtl_pages/lugs_ekla_0.html shows the similarity, and these can be seen (from a distance) on the following frames ; http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/frame_pages/frame_3638.html (mapped) & http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/frame_images/scot_1930sf.jpg Rattrays the framebuilders only described these as "Continental" lugs in the catalogues so that's of little help more than 60 years down the line.

I've placed the extracts from the Brown Brothers catalogue on this temporary page http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/frame_dtl_pages/lugs_ekla_detail.html for comparison. Interesting is the footnote to the 1939 diagram "These fittings are made by one of the finest Continental makers and are used by most of the well-known Continental riders"

It may well be they are Ekla and Not Crozet. Without the obvious "AC" stamped on the lug, can anyone tell ? It may well be that many of the lug makers followed generic popular patterns, and the difference was in detail.

Any thoughts ? or has anyone got an 'Ekla' catalogue for comparison ?

Bob Reid Stonehaven Scotland

http://www.flying-scot.co.uk (mapped)