Re: [CR]CCM Flyer, Thanks!

(Example: Framebuilders:Alberto Masi)

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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:55:20 -0500
To: vjp@telus.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]CCM Flyer, Thanks!


Victor Penner wrote:
>Also I may have misunderstood the date and model coding on the Sturmey
>Archer 3 speed hub. On Sheldon Wood's site it say's that the hub will have
>the model, in this case "AM" and sometimes the month and two digits for the
>year. The AM came out in 1936 and my hub has an 8 stamped on it, is it
>possible that it was for 1938, which is the year of the frame?

In the '30s they used a single digit for the year, but they had a Y1.94K problem so they had to go do two digits.

Pre WW2 Sturmey-Archer hubs are quite uncommon on this side of the Atlantic.

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