Jesse McCauley
McCauley Cycle Works
Like many of you fine folk I am fascinated by the multi and variable speed hubs produced from the late 19th and early 20th century.
One caveat of my fascination is that it comes with a heavy dose of ignorance on my part, which leads me to this thread.
I would like to compile as many 'exploded view' images of early multi speed hubs showing the varying internal hardware setups for the purposes of future identification.
If you have a positively identified multi speed hub that you are up for dismantling for the sake of group-education those images would be welcomed but ideally this thread will be primarily populated with period advertisements, schematics, patent prints etc.
I will get it rolling with a couple from my digital archive:
One caveat of my fascination is that it comes with a heavy dose of ignorance on my part, which leads me to this thread.
I would like to compile as many 'exploded view' images of early multi speed hubs showing the varying internal hardware setups for the purposes of future identification.
If you have a positively identified multi speed hub that you are up for dismantling for the sake of group-education those images would be welcomed but ideally this thread will be primarily populated with period advertisements, schematics, patent prints etc.
I will get it rolling with a couple from my digital archive: