Originally Posted by
xenologer
I suppose then,
that the new single position dropout was made by modifying the cast for an old horizontal one? instead of starting from scratch
thus the extra unused space at the rear?
Exactly. Vertical dropouts were available then, but I suspect the shortened-horizontal configuration allowed for a little more tolerance of imperfect alignment in a mass-production situation.
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