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Similar emotional connection with Gillotts
I know you'll do it justice.
I was wondering about the headset, My dad's Gillott is 1947, I'll check the frame no BB details to confirm. His has a normal campag chrome set.
He's also got those long-tanged fork ends too.
I tend to think of clip-headsets being a 30's thing (brampton, chater-lea etc) perhaps there were some traditionalists keeping the flame later, request from customers etc. either that or it's just a normal push-in headset that's been resprayed over!
If it is integrated and not spinning well give me a shout as I have quite a few different push-in races that may be of use.
Apparently viscount were using these pop-in races on their bikes right up to the 80's though I think they were just pushing them into spun housings for economic reasons.