Well I contacted a local fellow C&Ver, Poguemahone for advise on which LBS to take it to. He offered to come over and bring his removers and help! Nice person by the way.

Anyway, he takes a look and is not familiar with what we are looking at and has no tool to fit. Advises to try and remove the individual cogs and go from there. Then we go out and look at some cool bikes he has acquired. When I come back in I decide to make my own remover. I look around, find some metal , do some grinding and see if it will fit. Put it in the vise , mount the wheel and give it a tug. It came right off. So that problem is solved and I can use the hub.

However, in the quest for info, I had to find out more about the freewheel or it would kill me! So I looked and thought and looked some more and thought some more. Then I took Poguemahone's advise and tried to remove the cogs one by one. The first 2 came off together and..... exposed the front plate! The freewheel turned out to be a Merveille. I'm not going to use it but would like to know about it.

So..... can anyone tell me about Merveille? I typed into a search engine and Merveille 3 speeds come up but no others. I will start another thread on Merveille freewheels.

Thanks again in advance.