Holland Mechanics

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Holland Mechanics is the world leader in wheelbuilding. The first wheel lacing machine was developed around 1963 by an external engineering company for Raleigh UK. The machine was tested but never put into action. After the labor union realized how many people would become obsolete they refused to use the so called Lacing machine. Later the project was continued within Gazelle Holland who was a raleigh dealer in the Netherlands. There mister CC Damman the later founder and owner of Holland Mechanics brought the machine to a producible type. By doing this he started the world wide automatization within the bicycle industry. Colin Jarrett and other helped me to put parts of the puzzle together of the history of this first lacing machine.

The first trueing robot in 1977. The largest bicycle manufactures and wheeljobbers of the world like Mavic, Trek and Giant use these types of equipment.