A.S. Gillott owners & appreciation club

Those saddles are bloody interesting.

There used to be a Mansfield window display in Wilson’s on Peckham High St.
It was an amazing wrought iron affair with the company name and a selection of saddles mounted above it.
I had a 20s Humber loop frame policewoman’s bike with (actual) 28” wheels and rod brakes and I used to go there to get eye bolts, brake blocks and tyres.
It was my first bike as an adult.
Old man Wilson was almost blind and easily 80 something, totally cantankerous and pissed off in that way that all proper bike shop owners were back then. His eyes lit up when I first told him I had a 20’s Humber “have you, by Jove!‽”
the shop was chaos and a real Aladdin’s cave, I’m pretty sure his Father started the business in the C19th!!
When he died the collectors swooped, Mark Stevens (Edit it was AVT) bought the Mansfield sign I’m pretty sure.
There used to be a pic of it on line, I’ll have a look.