From: Mark Stevens <gillottspear@googlemail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <mailman.10814.1254870035.524.classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 00:30:56 +0100
Subject: [CR] Gillott catalogue on flickr
Ladies and Gentlemen, here on flickr photos of a 1963 Gillott catalogue.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/makfreak/sets/72157622404788085/
There are some guessing the derailleur and other bits games and spotting the
worst positioning of Q/r levers, even on a road/path, I have ever seen. It
looks like the frames and wheels were dropped off at the photographers
studio and they were then left to get on with it. It makes the adage ''If
you want a job doing properly then do it yourself'' ring so true. It was
things like this that frustrated Harry Carrington so much that he left 3
years later to become an insurance salesman. There was also the 'Germiniani'
episode... more on that later.
Mark Stevens - not about to do the same in Evanton Scotland.