I honestly don't know but did you spot anything on the tandem? Built for long distance time trialling 12's and 24's it has twin brazed on lamp brackets on the front forks. That was normal practice yonks ago. Best wishes Mick.
> Whilst on the subject of tandem pairs, can anyone
> help me identify the pair
> in an original Patterson drawing I own? I believe
> it dates to the 1930's,
> and it has been suggested that the timekeeper
> illustrated is B. W. Best. I
> assume that it depicts a successful record attempt,
> because of the arms
> holding the laurel wreaths, but there's no title or
> other indication of when
> and what it relates to.
>
> It can be viewed at
>
http://photobucket.com/
>
> Neil Foddering
> Weymouth, England
>
>
> >From: Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
> >To: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> >Subject: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts Date: Sun, 4
> Dec 2005 17:12:33 +0000
> >(GMT)
> >
> >
> >Mark,
> >My apologies for posting this via CR but you were
> >asking sometime ago about Brothers who raced
> tandems.
> >Well I went out for a short ride this morning and
> >where I stopped for elevenses there were some old
> CTC
> >members, I'm old but these were ancient!
> >One of them got talking about Claud Butlers and I
> told
> >him there was one hell of a debate going on about
> >Lugged and Lugless frames on the internet.
> >By the way I had already spoken to Ted Ernst
> earlier
> >in the morning about CB Lugless tandems, when one
> of
> >them said to one of the group do you remember at
> Herne
> >Hill when Reg Harris & Alan Bannister ripped out
> the
> >bottom brackets on that lugless Claud USWB they
> were
> >on. What a coincidence I had already mentioned this
> to
> >Ted earlier in the day.
> >Turns out they use to go to the Hill to watch all
> the
> >N.C.U One Mile Tandem Championships they had seen
> all
> >the greats Sibbit & Chambers, Burgess & Pond,
> Harrison
> >& Hampshire and of course Harris & Bannister.
> >Well I had to ask if they knew of any brother
> pairings
> >from this period and they said of course the Bond
> >brothers Maidenhead C&A.C.
> >Are these your men?
> >Best wishes Mick. The cakes were crap won't stop
> there again.
> >
> >Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in
> your memories if not
> >still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon
> UK.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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