The Brooks folks are really good about responding to question about their saddles. I received this answer from the folks at brooks.
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This is a production date code that tell us that the cantle was pressed in January 1975
Best Regards
Steve
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steven Green Office Manager Brooks England Ltd Downing Street, Smethwick West Midlands. B66 2PA http://www.brooksengland.com
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Thank you,
David
________________________________ From: Tony Colegrave <tony_colegrave@hotmail.com> To: rsb000@hotmail.com Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, March 30, 2010 7:20:20 AM Subject: Re: [CR] brooks saddle - OFF LIST
Dan, Robert and all,
In all the years that I've been involved with Brooks' saddles I've never come across an example with a date-stamping on the underside of the cantle which carried any letter other than A, B, C or D. Accordingly, it seems certain to me that each of these letters referred to a period of three months. For many years, the leather tops were embossed with a much more detailed code which I assume is a more specific 'batch' reference, but it'd probably require the combined resources of Bletchley Park and G.C.H.Q. to decipher these.
+++CAUTION! OFF-TOPIC!+++ Much more recently, Brooks have stamped the leather tops with an unambiguous month/year code; e.g. 0L7 indicates December 2007 and 9B8 means February 1998.
Tony Colegrave, Northiam, E.Sussex. U.K.
> From: rsb000@hotmail.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:10:23 -0700
> Subject: Re: [CR] brooks saddle - OFF LIST
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> Dan,
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> Assuming that you are referring to that which is stamped into the underside of the cantle plate, it would be a manufacturing date code indicating that the particular saddle in question originates from the first (...i.e. "A") production run of the calendar year 1975 (...i.e "75). Although I am not absolutely certain, my vague recollection is that the letter code preface itself incremented by fortnight (...i.e. a 14 day span of time). If so, then your saddle would have been built up during the first fourteen days of January, 1975.
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> Perhaps Tony Colgrave might be able to "chime in" with a bit more information....
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> Robert "saddle tattle" Broderick
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> ...the "Chronically Cloudy Clime" of Oregon
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> Portland, USA
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> > From: danevansdesign@yahoo.fr
> > To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:54:27 +0100
> > Subject: [CR] brooks saddle
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> > hello
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> > what does A75 mean on my brooks professional saddle?
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> > any help much appreciated.
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> > dan evans
> > aquitaine
> > france
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