Perhaps Hilary will chime in on this issue. On examining my Viking at the Cirque quite some years ago, he indicated that the Severn Valley model near the end of production at Wolverhampton was built with a plain lugset. Perhaps Prugnat and they were nicely thinned on my example.
There was little remaining of the original finish so no means of ascertaining the model designation. A splendid ride, I no longer have the frameset which is presently undergoing restoration by a fellow in Minnesota (to replace a Nervex Series Professionel that he once owned).
Charlie Young
Honey Brook, Pennsylvania USA
> Greetings all -- Quite some time ago (really the last time I participated
> in CR), I was cogitating which bike among several classics to restore or
> refurbish next, and I asked for your vote. More than 20 replied (thank
> you!), and the winner was my 1960s Viking Severn Valley, and I said that I
> would abide. Now, however delayed, I am back to it, and have a
> fundamental problem, or question to ask of you:
>
> All of the research I have done on the bike, for specs and the like, tell
> that the SV came in Nervex lugs and apparently exclusively. But my frame,
> which came to me sans decals but con headbadge (which was used on other
> models) is not held together by Nervex, Professional or otherwise. Q: Do
> you know whether Viking made this model with other than Nervex luggery?
> Or am I whistling up the wrong headtube?
>
> Thank you,
>
> J.B. Froke
> Pebble Beach, California