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Also, while I’m here posting pics, here’s some interesting pre-50s-ish stuff that work colleagues have dumped under my desk.
The chainset is a bit of a beast. Twin 1/8” chainrings in 60 and 56 teeth. Looks to be a home made conversion. Can’t quite make out the manufacturer stamp, I think it says Utility and British Made. Cranks themselves are nickel plated while the chainrings are chromed. Allegedly not off a tandem! In the same box was a Benelux mech and a 1/8” 3-speed block which I assume was all used together at one point. The old puncture repair kits were in that box as well.
The stem came from someone I work with who is EF Russ’s grandson, who is having a clear out. It’s in black celluloid (?), not chrome, so I assume it was made during or shortly after WW2 while the chromium shortage was on. Probably means it could have been made by Ernie Russ himself.