Originally Posted by
johnggold
The cups are both Campag, and the markings show that both are clockwise thread.
So the frame is Italian and not British. This is another reason the decals were not replaced. Getting decals from Italy is problematic and not convenient and expensive. I can remember when I painted frames in the 70's, customers would often have me leave off the decals because it was a considerably greater expense. Somebody (and it wouldn't be me) had to write the company and request decals that they might not want to send because they couldn't be sure in Italy some American wasn't putting them on a frame that might not be there own. And some companies had policies that they didn't send their decals no matter what. Paying for them involved going to the bank to get money exchanged to Lira. They wouldn't send them for free. All this took time too because the bike company wouldn't necessarily be in a hurry to ship them.