Tom wrote: "My own wishful thinking would like to have seen a Cyclo built on double-parallelogram lines (did they even experiment?)"
I've just fitted a Cyclo Benelux (Birmingham) Super 60 to an unknown English frame with the required Cyclo dropout with hanger; far superior to a campy Gran Sport IMHO. Moreover, the Super 60 (produced in 1960 and 61 I think) seems to be an inspiration for those 80s/90s Mavic derailleurs. Compare them side by side and they are remarkably similar in many respects except materials.
Having said all this, I haven't tried the Super 60 out just yet. Soon it'll all be together.
These two articles tell a bit about this gear:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
Got to admit, I love this patriotic quote from the Wearwell test. "I must confess that I was rather pleased to see a bicycle of this quality which has been made throughout in Britain. Obviously it has not needed to resort to components manufactured on the continent in order to sell well."
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