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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 5465" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p><strong>Originality</strong></p><p></p><p>I've told this story before, and unless stopped, will doubtless tell it again, but my father had a hand-change Norton from the factory in the late thirties. He couldn't ride a bike with foot-change, because he had only one leg, his right, which had to be used for the brake. So, to get the sale, the factory build him a right foot brake, hand-change, Norton. In the run up to WW II, if you wanted a bike with sky-blue scarlet paint, and bananas instead of handlebars, they'd supply. Some time in the early thirties, perhaps 1933, after the first Wall Street crash, Rudge announced a policy of "continuous improvement". What this actually meant was that they'd use up old parts on new bikes to survive, so that, for example, there are many "original" 1934 Rudges, all slightly different, and the "1937-39" frame was being used on bikes in 1936. There is no reason to believe that Vincent weren't under the same pressure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 5465, member: 4034"] [b]Originality[/b] I've told this story before, and unless stopped, will doubtless tell it again, but my father had a hand-change Norton from the factory in the late thirties. He couldn't ride a bike with foot-change, because he had only one leg, his right, which had to be used for the brake. So, to get the sale, the factory build him a right foot brake, hand-change, Norton. In the run up to WW II, if you wanted a bike with sky-blue scarlet paint, and bananas instead of handlebars, they'd supply. Some time in the early thirties, perhaps 1933, after the first Wall Street crash, Rudge announced a policy of "continuous improvement". What this actually meant was that they'd use up old parts on new bikes to survive, so that, for example, there are many "original" 1934 Rudges, all slightly different, and the "1937-39" frame was being used on bikes in 1936. There is no reason to believe that Vincent weren't under the same pressure. [/QUOTE]
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