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7 Shardlow Road, Alvaston, Derby

Updated 3.4.2007            Click on images to see larger view

 Mercian Cycles Head Badge

Mercian's
current
website

 To establish date of manufacture:
"Mercian frame numbering consists of the number of the frame built that year
followed by the year of manufacture, sometimes this system was reversed to
have the year of manufacture first."
"For instance 26876 would be the 268th frame built in 1976, so obviously your
frame wasn't built in 1933 or 1937, also there should be a single number near
the main frame number denoting the builder of the frame."
                                                                        Nick Henderson

There is a very interesting Mercian chapter in The Custom Bicycle Book by Denise de la Rosa / Kolin Book.

Pics taken from late 1970's Catalog; models "Pro", "Superlight" and "Olympic"

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Model "Vincitore"

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Scott McCaskey's Vincitore 

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Mercian model Olympic..
 Note sculpted Wagner fork crown, Prugnat lugs and long Campag dropouts...

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John Tisdale's

Charles O'Toole's stunning Vincitore model...

           

The "Bike Brothers" give us a Pictorial Shop tour!

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