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mark 2:
I've had some made in UK tuffs and Z rims too (maybe made at same place?). Could be worth asking Jai if someone at Shiners know anything about it. Although looking at an old ad Freewheeler Leisure in Warwick were Skyway distributor bitd. Maybe Bill knows.....it's a mystery.

JT71:

--- Quote from: mark j. on January 19, 2008, 02:35 AM ---I've had some made in UK tuffs and Z rims too (maybe made at same place?). Could be worth asking Jai if someone at Shiners know anything about it. Although looking at an old ad Freewheeler Leisure in Warwick were Skyway distributor bitd. Maybe Bill knows.....it's a mystery.

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I'm sure Freewheeler made Skyways in Wellesbourne, the village I grew up in. There was a skip out back with loads of bent and cracked ones in, I never managed to salvage a usable set, lots of kids said they did, but I'm sure the ones in the skip were all fokked and you had to go over a wall with glas sin the concrete on top to have a look.  :shocked:

they might well have been made at the factory in High Wycombe and sorted and distributed from the unit in Wellesbourne.

MartyC:
Makes you wonder if the machinery is still in the UK, if the moulds have the alloy hubs and whether they still have the rivieting tools  :-\

billstup:
They were made under licence for Skyway in the uk, possibly to get around the import duty tax thing, I thought someone on here recons it was in High Wycombe but I`m not sure tbh  :crazy2:

retrogeezer:
I heard they were made in High Wycombe - pretty sure they are all plastic hubbed and usually green from the ones I have seen!

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