The 1949 Holdsworth "Aids to Happy Cycling" lists silver, red, blue and green.
On a related subject, even before the war, handlebar tape was available in red, orange, black, white, green, yellow, light blue and da rk blue (Brown Brothers catalogue 1939).
Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England
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> From: castell5@sympatico.ca
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:46:58 -0400
> Subject: [CR]Maybe trivial, but what colour 40s-50s brake cable housing
?
>
> As the subject line states this may be a trivial matter, but in thinkin
g
> about the final flourishes for my 1949 project I was suddenly unsure as
> to the colours of brake cable housing which were used at the time. What
> was acceptable? Was it a case of white, black, grey?
>
> Of course, all of the available period pictures seem to be in B & W.
>
> Paul B. Williams, BAH, MPhil, PhD
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> castell5@sympatico.ca
>
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