RE: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts

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From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: RE: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:25:40 +0000
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Yes Mick, and I also noticed that it's on sprints - the spare tub(s) are strapped under the stoker's saddle, but I guess that sprints would have been normal practice for time trials and record atttempts? I'm guessing we're talking a record here, since I don't imagine they'd have bothered with such a drawing of someone winning a time trial. I'll just have to wait until the right copy of "Cycling" turns up, I suppose - I missed a complete run from 1933 to 1948 this summer, because I didn't have the money in time. Bugger.

Best wishes,

Neil


>From: Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
>To: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
>CC: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: RE: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts
>Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:25:22 +0000 (GMT)
>
>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.
>
>
>
>--- neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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/albums/v396/hadendowa/Patterson/
> >
> > 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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