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Component Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Mafac: three articles, a Timeline of 23 dated events from 1894 to 1983 and 10 documents in the archive.
The history of Mafac on Ebykr.
MAFAC of Clermont-Ferrand from Auguste Bourdel's founding in 1946: the Criterium cantilever, the Racer center-pull, Rebour's drawings and the firm's end.
Grouped by format, the most read first.
A practical guide to identifying and dating Mafac brakes — why there is no date code to rely on, how the Racer's arm markings changed, which models arrived when and how to read Mafac's own three-digit lever code.
A timeline of MAFAC from Auguste Bourdel's Securité cantilever of 1946 and the 1951 Racer center-pull to the side-pull era, Spidel and the decline.
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