Gundle UK Carrier/Trade bikes. Rare ephemera seen 1st time on BF!
07-01-08, 09:33 AM
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Gundle UK Carrier/Trade bikes. Rare ephemera seen 1st time on BF!
Here are some ultra scarce ephemera pics from the UK Gundle trade bicycle company freebie/promotional items given away in the 50s and 60s. Cool stuff proving that some of the small companies here were 'on the ball' even then!
Showing period catalogue, bridge score card + pencils, handbag mirror and key fob plus NOS decals unobtainable anywhere else. Literally.
Fancy producing Bridge score cards. With the pencils?
The hand bag mirror has got be a scarce item!
Didn't show the other side cos I'm shy!
The key fob is super rare....
Offers? Joking....
PM me.
Showing period catalogue, bridge score card + pencils, handbag mirror and key fob plus NOS decals unobtainable anywhere else. Literally.
Fancy producing Bridge score cards. With the pencils?
The hand bag mirror has got be a scarce item!
Didn't show the other side cos I'm shy!
The key fob is super rare....
Offers? Joking....
PM me.
07-01-08, 12:54 PM
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very cool. And the items are in such good condition as well. That was a good find.
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07-02-08, 03:25 AM
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She has the last Gundle to roll out of the factory.
https://flickr.com/groups/leonard_gundle/pool/
Note the name of the latest pics! (Gnome...)
I'm elevhem and the Gundle group is there to spread the word.
It's a great story.
I bought an old trade bike in bits.
Thought it was a Gundle, did some research and located Leonard Gundles daughter.
Met her and got all this info and stuff on Gundle machines.
Then found that my old machine was not a Gundle after all!
All good fun though, and it's a story needed telling and preserving I think.
07-02-08, 04:29 AM
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Another one of us. It is just part of the plot for gnomes to take over the world.
It is a great story. Have you found out who made your mystery trade bike yet?
It's a great story.
I bought an old trade bike in bits.
Thought it was a Gundle, did some research and located Leonard Gundles daughter.
Met her and got all this info and stuff on Gundle machines.
Then found that my old machine was not a Gundle after all!
All good fun though, and it's a story needed telling and preserving I think.
I bought an old trade bike in bits.
Thought it was a Gundle, did some research and located Leonard Gundles daughter.
Met her and got all this info and stuff on Gundle machines.
Then found that my old machine was not a Gundle after all!
All good fun though, and it's a story needed telling and preserving I think.
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07-03-08, 02:21 AM
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I haven't traced the maker of it yet!
Here it is roughly/partly assembled. Just to get an idea what it looked like.
Been painted since.
It's the girdered forks that are the puzzle to me.
They usually extend further up.
The chain-wheel is a pattern used by Gundle and that was what mislead me at first.
I have seen all the Gundle catalogues and there are none similar.
Neither is the carrier pattern the same as any of the Gundles I've seen.
So it's a bit of a mystery still.
I'd guess it's early 30s, from one of the many smaller producers.
Here it is roughly/partly assembled. Just to get an idea what it looked like.
Been painted since.
It's the girdered forks that are the puzzle to me.
They usually extend further up.
The chain-wheel is a pattern used by Gundle and that was what mislead me at first.
I have seen all the Gundle catalogues and there are none similar.
Neither is the carrier pattern the same as any of the Gundles I've seen.
So it's a bit of a mystery still.
I'd guess it's early 30s, from one of the many smaller producers.
07-03-08, 10:14 AM
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Not always!
On Sunday I won a 1920s Swift loop framed machine on ebay.
Or thought I did.
See new thread here
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...10#post6993810
Feeling a little foolish right now....
On Sunday I won a 1920s Swift loop framed machine on ebay.
Or thought I did.
See new thread here
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...10#post6993810
Feeling a little foolish right now....
