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I have had a look through my brown brothers catalogues, there's no gnutti parts listed in any of them! Disraeli gears has a bunch of simplex catalogues, but I can't see any specific mentions of alloy rings.
I would take a punt and guess the alloy rings started in the late 30s, and the start of gnutti hubs in the UK from the mid 40s
There's an old Scottish bloke that used to smuggle gnutti components into the UK on his plane to avoid customs... He started his shop in 1950 (John Robertson)
I have a gnutti catalogue from 1953 but I can't find any earlier on the web
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I’ve been looking through the VCC library (Jesus that could do with a bit of reorganising).
What sources are available for info on components available in UK post-war?
The Holdsworthy Aids catalogues end 1939 and the first post-war on VCC is 1951 (edit 1950)
The early 50s HW catalogues are mostly reprints of the year before anyway and I think aren’t that representative of what was becoming available.
The two things I’m trying to find out is when Gnutti hubs with QR skewers were first readily available in the UK (or FB or ‘Tabucchi’) and when the Simplex Competition double chainwheels were available in in alloy.
Any suggestions of where to look?
Is the VCC ‘library’ easier to use on a pc rather than a tablet?