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@Rik_Van_Looy
Thought I had the brake situation sorted courtesy of ebay but got sniped...
Back to the drawing board. Wondering whether a pair of Tektro CR720's debadged in Silver might be an option.... (in other words, starting to get a bit desperate).
Other than the above Mafac Crits which are the obvious choice, the only other options I can think of are Weinmann
Dia Compe 981's may be pushing it a bit in terms of era...
There are some Modolo's and CLB's too that would look the part (but way outside the project cost model)
There were also plenty of crap copies of the 981 - I'd assumed it would be pretty easy to unearth something that looks suitably ancient as just about every cheap raleigh or peugeot in the early 90's had a set of faux 981's made by chang star or someone like that!! _ I'll need to do a decent search on Retrobike and see what I can find.