Thanks to a good bit of detective work by Craig Montgomery has managed to positively identify lugs - such as those found on early 50s Flying Scot's and a few other marques such as Jack Taylor as being produced by Oscar Egg.
Now the question. What's the story behind "Oscar Egg" the company ? from a cursory glance at the CR archives I can find little other than Oscar Egg being Swiss, and the company being in Paris... and a few tentative enquiries, but what's the real deal and did anyone bottom it out ? Also, does anyone have any high-res images of Egg frames or a complete machine dating anytime between 1945 and 1959 ?
Just to tease the crowds - these images <http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/ other_marques/egg/oscar_egg.html> came from a French book 'Le Cyclisme' by Jean Bobet dating from 1960. Sadly the images don't clean up well as the originals have more dots on them than a golf ball...
Bob Reid
Stonehaven
Scotland