[CR]Atax components

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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:14:00 -0600
Thread-Topic: Atax components
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From: "John Hurley" <JHurley@jdabrams.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Atax components

List: Does anyone know any history on Atax as a brand or company? Some of the usual web sites for classic bikes mention components by this name, but nothing on the brand. For example, the CR website does not list Atax among the French component brands. Sheldon Brown does not list Atax in his glossary. Velobase does not include anything on this brand. Google searches have so far been fruitless. Nothing shows in Wikipedia.

My PX-10 handlebars are engraved with "Atax", "Philippe" and "Guidons". I don't know which of these is a brand name, a model name, or what.

Thanks,
John Hurley
Austin, Texas USA