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Rubber were certainly used up to 42 when shortages began to bite, but stocks were used up so some overlap.......

 

Prior to then, and in parallel, many manufacturers also used sprung steel clips to hold anything up to 3-4 cables and wires in various sizes....these were often a Lucas-made item and very similar to bicycle items from the period.......

 

The aluminium ties ("Strip, aluminium, pliable") were introduced around 43-44...........

 

You can buy repro rubber and aluminium ties, but the sprung steel clips are harder to source and not to my knowledge reproduced at present..........best try old bicycle shops....you never know....:-D

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If you do go for rubber ties check them very carefully, the ones I bought recently seemed to made of cheese - snapped as soon as I put any pressure on them. There are some rubbish ones around _- I bought some good ones from George Prew (?) Goldstar specialist which were excellent at the Stafford Classic bike show.

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Yes the proper ones are moulded from rubber and have a raised up portion at the 'T' end. The other cheap crap are just stamped out of sheet neoprene and will snap as soon as you look at them.......Britbits sell the good ones also.

 

Ron

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Jiri Horice at Vintage Replica makes repros of a number of the spring steel type. He had them on his stand at Netley Marsh and they're indistinguishable from OE (although they will need black enamelling).

 

http://www.vintage-replica.cz/294.E.htm

 

Early-war Nortons had quite a lot of these and in the few places where there wasn't one suitable, they appear to have used black cloth tape.

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