[CR] Cable Clips - A timeline?

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To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: Brook Watts <brook.watts@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:24:19 -0700
Subject: [CR] Cable Clips - A timeline?


I've been wondering when the use of top tube cable clips came along. Most of what I see in the oldest pics are either braze-on stops or tape used to secure brake cable housing.

I'm most curious about immediately after the war: 1945 through 1950-ish.

Anyone seen evidence of cable clips prior ot the mid-50's? When did Universal and REG produce the first clamps? Campagnolo shows them in the first Campy catalog I have, #12 which is approx. 1953.

Brook Watts
Longmont Colorado USA