The Altenburger/GB/Magistroni Road Ensemble

[bagpuss]

I have some Magistroni details in a Evian Simplex catalogue circa mid 1950's i think . Very few pictures included however .

 

[juvela]

I can't find any mention, (or evidence) for such a groupset. There's nothing at all on the Classic Rendezvous site and Joels Blackbirds pages on Magistroni say nothing of it. He's pretty much the expert on it.

Of note though, is the fact when Magistroni disappeared in the early 60's, a few years later OFMEGA started (OFficine MEcchaniche GiostrA), surely no coincidence. Ofmega did go on to produce entire groups but not until the 1980's.

Apparently Magistroni catalogues are almost impossible to find, so I think coming across sufficient evidence for a collaborative effort with GB and Altenburger and three Italians might be a very difficult task. Good luck

Rebour drawing of Magistroni's revolutionary bottom bracket design with annular bearings.

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OFMEGA is not an acronym for Officine Meccaniche Giostra

that is an incorrect suggestion I gave to Joel many years ago, back at the commencement of the present millennium

have subsequently learned it to be an acronym for the firm

Officina Meccanica Galvanotecnica



Giostra's year of closure was 1965 - the same year they launched the Super Zenith components



for about four decades thought the Magistroni logo to be a circus tent and was puzzled as to what the relation might be to cycling. subsequently learned that giostra is the Italian word for carousel/merry-go-round.

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