Re: [CR]World Champion Stripes on Paramounts

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:43:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]World Champion Stripes on Paramounts

I have pictures of a bike (Carlton Franco Suisse, sold from about 1960-1970) where the stripes are :

Blue, Black, Green, Yellow, Red

Carlton won some world championships in the 1950's, but the order of stripes on these bands do not match the others :

Blue, red, black, yellow, green = World Championships Blue, yellow, black, green, red = Olympics.

Any idea what these stripes are ? Perhaps some sort of British Championship? Thanx,

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA