Holdsworth 1931 Advertisement — Road Racing Wants (Rossiter Kit, Sprint Wheels & Tires)

Cycling, 13 March 1931.
— Advertisement —
ROAD RACING WANTS
The good times of the Road Game are with us again—Rags and Timber—Knights of the Alpaca—Five, four, three, two, one—GO—Have a drink?—Number, please—Only another 2 miles—Finish! Is there a better sport? I don’t think so.
You’ll want your kit overhauled. Come here for your wants—you can’t go wrong. Didn’t Jack Rossiter come to Holdsworth for his 1,000-Mile Record Kit?
RACING JACKETS.
Alpaca—First-class article, very well made, three pockets. In black or grey 12/6
Standard Black Alpaca Jacket, three pockets. Hundreds in use .. .. 8/3
Popular Black Jacket, three pockets, very good value .. .. .. 6/11
Racing Caps, with celluloid Peak. Black Cap, Amber Peak. White Cap, Green Peak 2/3
Eyeshades. Good size, Green or Amber .. .. 1/-
ROSSITER HANDMADE 17/6
Made to measure 2/6 extra.
You can invest in this shoe with the certainty that you are getting the best racing and club riding shoe. Handmade from first class materials, it served Rossiter well throughout his gruelling 1,000-mile record. It will serve you well for many a mile. Tan with black trimmings or vice versa.
This is the latest
BARTHELEMY Piano Wire Clip
Weighs only 3 ozs. pair. Practically unbreakable. We recommend it with Brooks Chrome Straps with Quick Release fastening .. 2/6
Clips alone pair 1/6
COBRA RACING BRAKE
Weight only 13 ozs.
You can now get this fine brake with ordinary Clip Fittings as well as the bolt or braze on. Black or plated. Central pull action, with even power on each side of rim. Adjustable brake shoes giving full ½ in. variation of adjustment.
Front .. .. 6/9
Rear .. .. 7/-
SPECIAL OFFER—
Rossiter Outfit
—just as supplied to Jack—Racing Jacket, Tights and Rossiter Hand-made Racing Shoes .. 30/-
SPRINT WHEELS.
Built in Holdsworth’s workshops. These wheels may have equals but NO superiors. They are really fast.
Brampton Superb Hubs—15-17 spokes. For other Hubs see full details in Holdsworth’s list.
CONSTRICTOR.
Best Flat, 13 or 14 mm. .. .. 31/6
“Boa,” 13 or 14 mm. .. .. 24/6
“Reinforced,” all sizes .. .. 31/3
“Reinforced Boa,” all sizes .. 24/3
“Boston,” all sizes .. .. 31/-
“Boston Boa,” all sizes .. .. 23/9
TABUCCHI.
“Girder,” “Crescent,” or “Flat” 27/6
N.B.—Tying and Soldering 2/- extra.
WATCHES.
Good Reliable Watches 5/-
Terry’s Claw Pattern Watch Clips .. 1/-
Vanderstuyft Clips. Adjustable .. Pair 1/6
With Straps complete. Pair 2/6
Pelissier, Lapize or Sargent Clips Pair 1/3
Complete .. Pair 2/3
Brooks Good British Leather Straps—Double Strap pattern 2/3
Single Strap Pattern .. 1/3
TIGHTS
Specially made by a firm of Theatrical Tight Makers, therefore correctly cut and sewn.
Hand-made WORSTED, fully fashioned to fit leg well, double-seated. “The Best” 15/6
Mixture WOOL and COTTON, warmth and wear, double-seated .. 10/6
Heavy-weight COTTON, double-seated .. 5/-
Light COTTON, marvellous value .. 2/11
SHORTS
To wear over tights, double-seated and Black Cotton, 3/3 and 2/6
ATHLETIC SLIPS .. .. .. 1/3
JERSEYS
Black, All Wool, light but warm, Roll Collar or Buttons at Neck and Shoulder, 34-40 in. .. .. .. 7/11
Also in Good Heavy-weight Cotton, same style as wool .. 4/6
CONSTRICTOR TUBULARS
Have held their sway for the past twenty-eight years and still are accounted by many of the crack riders the fastest and most reliable.
This is the famous FIFTY either with smooth band (as illustrated) or File Pattern—14½ oz. approximately. One of the very fastest men who habitually rides this tyre and is famous for his immunity from punctures says—”Ride a ‘Fifty’ not quite board hard and you’ll get through.”
Thread Tubular .. 21/- Silk .. 27/6
Skin Sides 1/9 extra.
Next we have the No. 3 ROAD RACING. Before the advent of the Fifty by far the most popular road tyre, and still used by those who prefer just a little more weight. Will stand up to many miles of racing. Weight, approx., 17 oz.
Thread .. 22/6 Silk .. 29/-
Skin Sides 1/9 extra
Here is the PYTHON—the tyre which will still enable the man who has to count his pence a fair chance of doing a fast ride. Red File Tread. Weight 17 oz. Skin Sides included. 17/6
Also
TABUCCHI The fast Continental sewn-up pattern.
Ambra Superga—Tough Ambra Rubber Tread .. .. .. 17/6
“Super Fifty,” 12 oz. approximately. Pure Ambra Para Rubber .. .. 21/-
Ambra Tandem, 16[…] oz. .. .. .. 21/-
For Everything or Anything, write to:—
W. F. HOLDSWORTH
121, Lennard Road, BECKENHAM, Kent.
‘Phone: 4461 Sydenham.
EVERYTHING post free.
Or Call at
5, Thesiger Road, PENGE, S.E.20.
185, Markhouse Road, Walthamstow, E.17.
132, Lower Richmond Road, PUTNEY, S.W.15.
[A small drawing at the top left shows racing men on a road, one stopped beside his machine. Below are the two-tone Rossiter shoe, the Barthelemy toeclip, a pair of tights, the Cobra center-pull brake with its parts numbered 25 to 33 and three Constrictor tubulars in cutaway down the right side, their layers labeled.]