The Peugeot bike featuring in the Tom Simpson reconstruction footage has rack eyelets
Yup. They used pressed steel Simplex ends and dropouts with mudguard eyelets.
They used Nervar lugs; and Nervar BB shell with the French Thread.
My Pug has all this. French thread cups are like rocking horse shoot, and that's why the bike only does about 100 miles a year.
I have yet to watch the Tom Simpson programme.
Was it the bike that Chris Sidwells had in his shop?
Did it have ornate schroll lugwork painted black? Half chrome forks and stays? Simplex front mech that was the 'sliding sideways' design and a Simplex rear mech in magnesium alloy, not DuPont plastic?
Mafac 'Racer' brakes, GB stem and bars with bar end shifters; and a tatty Brooks B17 Narrow on an alloy plain seatpost with a 'saddle clip' not a microjust.
Miche Normandy wide flange hubs with Mavic sprint rims and Michelin tubs?
Did the Mafac 'Racer' brakes have Salmon pink blocks?
If the answer to all these questions is 'yes', it's Chris' bike. It was his Xmas present in 1966.
