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juliania
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Builders varied. I have a memory that Ray Cottingham built at least some of them, Viner built some ... because it was a distributor-owned brand, as in many such cases, the builder was the source that could do the job to the required price and standard, at the time ...
As to who the distributor was, it's lost in the mists of my memory but I think it was either Phil Edwards who went on to form the distibutor Caratti Sport with his brother, Mark, or Alan Lloyd.
I read somewhere that Ceeway Marketing, currently the main importer and distributor for Columbus tubing, Cobra and Hozan tools and all manner of slightly more obscure small parts for frame and bicycle fabrication, is the modern incarnation of the old owners of the Saba brand ...