probably not... but if the claims are true, maybe when he went with her to eddy merckx shop he asked them to adapt the frame to v-brakes...
As far as I know there's never been a Merckx 'shop' in London, there have been plenty of stockists though, but I somehow doubt any of them would have readily agreed to send a frame back to Meise to have centre pull brazes added. In the ad the seller uses the terms V-brakes and centre pulls interchangably, which are very different systems, big buyer beware on this one is all I'm saying.
As far as I know there's never been a Merckx 'shop' in London, there have been plenty of stockists though, but I somehow doubt any of them would have readily agreed to send a frame back to Meise to have centre pull brazes added. In the ad the seller uses the terms V-brakes and centre pulls interchangably, which are very different systems, big buyer beware on this one is all I'm saying.