At least one maker in this country, Chris Pauley, was using top of the tube shifters in the early '70s.
Mick Butler wrote "This is possibly off topic because it is 1985 this is when every top tester had a low profile frame fitted with them. Good article to get is from Cycling November 28th. 1985 It's The Age Of The Low Profile by Ken Evans this features an Argos, Elsworth and a Roberts with them fitted."
I kind of came into this discussion in the middle because I am having a bit
of trouble with mailings on my new ISP.
Also I gave the list the new E-Mail address with a typo as Karen Rawls
gleefully pointed out...should have been tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net.
Oh quit your grinnin' Karen! Someday you too may give 1200 people the wrong
address...
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi