I'd really like to know more about the origins of cycling bags - cloth and construction, as well as designs through the years. Bags seem as important important a part of the cyclotourists armoury as anything else. Yet, compa red to other cycling components, bags (panniers and handlebar bags) are cur iously under documented.
I often squint to see details of the bags in the archive photographs of Bi cycle Quarterly. For example, a frequently seen style possibly predating t he current Sologne design has a single horizontal strap below the lid faste ner, presumuably to act as a compressor where criss-cross laces became used by Sologne. To my knowledge the name of these have not been recorded anyw here in any English speaking source.
Kind regards,
Mark
Mark Lawrence
Oxford
England