Jap And Jawa For Sale

[bucket]

No problems Team Man, like I said I based my assumptions of a MK2 frame on this leaflet here,

 

Maybe Barber's own the name Rotrax and the mk2 is their own design.

[Team Man]

Hi Bucket, very interesting on the ownership of the name Rotrax, maybe I can find out more this weekend, Certainly Rotrax were making there frames long before Barber started there frame service.

 

At the end of the day its not going to alter the price of fish, but it is interesting.

 

Cheers.

Edited May 20, 2005 by Team Man

[Team Man]

Hi Bucket, It looks like you were right about the MK2.

 

Alec Jackson designed and marketed the frame, it appears Rotrax was the manufacturer, at the start of the seventies the MK2 was designed, and it looks like the curved rear end was used, whether that was copying ESO's frame I don't know.

 

The picture you showed was the same picture from the Rotrax pamphlet that I saw at the weekend.

 

So I was wrong and you were right........by the way the Men in black were good, as usual, The leg trailing on the 1928 Duggie by Johnathan Clarke burning around the outside to overtake the rest brought cheers and whistles from the packed stand and terraces

[bucket]

Well Team Man it looks like we are both now more knowledgeable about Rotrax frame production!

 

The JAP I have came with a North frame and apart from the oil going into a dual fuel/oil tank and not in the frame, it's also much the same as a Jawa frame.

 

I guess the Jawa frame must have been a good design, although I remember once reading that the grade of tubing they were made from, wouldn't have even been suitable for pushchairs in this country.

 

Good to hear the M.I.B put on a good show, I haven't seen them for along time. unfortunately Swindon seem to have no interest in the vintage scene, unless you put the Mad Welly in this category.