It depends on where the bike was exported. It if was a "team issue" type (with the Ideale 2001 seat, Super LJ group, etc.) then the full hoods were used earlier than those exported to the US. The team issue bikes primarily went to the Benelux countries and parts of Canada...but that varied.
Kevin
> Dear All,
> I have a mid-seventies, French market, Peugeot PX10 with Mafac
> Competition calipers with the black label, but the levers still have the
> half rubber hoods (the old style). Either the levers have be changed by
> a previous owner, or the bike was made when there was still some old
> levers in the parts bin at Peugeot.
>
> Does anyone know the timeline of when Peugeot moved over to the Mafac
> Competition brakes and whether Mafac always supplied them with the full
> hoods on the levers?
>
> Could it be possible that the levers are the same underneath and they
> had rotted away on my PX10 before I bought it?
>
> Your help will be very much appreciated.
>
> All the best,
> Peter
> Barrie, Ontario