Sometimes the unexpected happens and this is such a occasion.

I stumbled across this Locomotief bike and a few things made my buy this bike.

1 the curvy lugs thru out the frame and it's striping all over
2 the (long?) campy dropouts
3 the stronlight crank with depose beneath the logo (early 60's?)
4 the unusual seatstay's which i had never seen
5 the barely visible but stil the reynolds decals on both frame and better on the forklegs
6 the skinny forklegs
7 the clamps on the toptube (brand gb)

The rest of the bike is a bit of a mix of parts like the shimi levers the suntour r'derr and wheels. All not so important parts as they can be found to correct the bike and make it as authentic as possible regarding model and year.

The funny part for me is that the dia compe (610/750?) brakes have a weinmann bridge for the cables. According to the pix on the wonderful site called velobase there was no such a little item. Would dia compe not have made this little part?

So here it is
The simplex f'derr and stronglight 49A? indicates it as a 60's bike but i need the help of you forum members to track down the model year for this frameset

Is this a gazelle locomotief of is this a locomotief while still under the umbrella of the VNG holding.

Can't wait to see what you have to say about it so thanks in advance.