ray green wrote:
> Viking Cycles seems to have had an imaginative marketing department in claiming four victories in the ToB. This includes, presumably, the team race in 1959 which is claimed in a contemporary advertisment. In fact Belgium won the team classement however "the whole Belgian team rode Viking Severn valley framesets"! Pretty neat trick for a trade team to claim the team win in a race exclusively for national and regional teams.
> ray green, brighton, sussex
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Well, their imagination ran rampant in the '60s, for I hold in my hand a
seat tube transfer that claims 5 "firsts" in the Tour of Britain, which
matches the ST transfer on my unrestored frame. See transfer BC7 here
<http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/NICK_AT_LLOYDS/decals.htm>.
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Phil Sieg
Knoxville, Tennessee
USA