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Open Road assets go under the hammerHurry if you want to get your hands on back issues of Open Road's publications. The closing date for offers to the liquidator is Monday 5 February. But - bulk orders (hundreds of copies) only are welcome. Below is a list of the assets of Open Road that I was sent a few days ago from Smith & Williamson, the liquidators. I was sent it because I've expressed interest in buying various bits and pieces. As ex-staff, I am also a preferential creditor of Open Road, so it's in my interests that the sale of assets raise as much money as possible, so that it may be possible for the liquidators to pay me and others some of what is owed. This, and because everyone who wants to should have a fair crack at getting back issues and other items, is why I want this list to reach all possible bidders and why I am publicising this list. If you know of anyone interested in bidding, please do forward this information to them. Because they only sent their letter to me on the 26th, overseas bidders are unlikely to have an opportunity to make an offer unless they hear about it fast via email. I checked with the liquidators (S&W;) before posting the list here and elsewhere, and they had no objection. They did ask me to emphasise, however, that only offers for bulk quantities of magazines will be welcome: individual copies are not available. I tried to pin them down on 'bulk' - they said hundreds, rather than tens of copies should be the minimum 'lot'. So please don't bother them if you aren't seriously interested in buying in bulk. Note the closing date for written offers (I checked - this includes fax and email) is 5th Feb (i.e. Monday). Note I've left their spelling exactly as they sent it: Bicycle obviously refers to Bycycle throughout. Calfree should be Calfee. Sytek presumably Syquest. Please don't address any queries or anything to me - all correspondence please to Smith and Williamson. All the best, Peter Peter Eland http://www.velovision.co.uk/ ***************************** Attn Samantha Booth - Re Open Road Ltd Smith & Williamson 92 Micklegate York YO1 6JK tel +44 1904 640600 Fax +44 1904 640700 email [email protected] Dear ... OPEN ROAD LIMITED - IN LIQUIDATION I write further to your recent enquiry in respect of the sale of stock and assets of the above company. Please find enclosed a list of all items available to purchase. Offers should be made in writing to Samantha Booth at the above address [92 Micklegate, York YO1 6JX, UK. Tel 01904 640600 F 01904 640700] by noon on Monday 5 February 2001. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, A. Sleight. LIST OF COMPANY ASSETS AND STOCK 1 Carbon fibre bicycle frame by Calfree design 1 Ant folding bike (from Australia, production commences in 2001) 2 Xtracycle tandemiser units (yet to be sent from the US) 1 Well used low ride recumbent (home built machine, not road worthy) 1 Database of subscribers (ownership disputed) 1 Database of manufacturers 1 Photolibrary - approximately 1500 transparencies plus moving image photo shots 3 Websites - Bikeculture.com - Encycleopedia.com - Bicycle.com 1 Manhattan Applemac (clone) computer - consists of a base unit, hard drive, keyboard and sytek cartridge drive - no monitor. 7 Encycleopedia 96 videos 137 Encycleopedia 5 videos 5 York videos 3365 Encycleopedia 2001 150 Read only CD's 1 Like-a-Bike Wooden Childs Hobby Horse 1 Display stand Previously published material held digitally Computer software - Sage, Word97, Windows 95 and Applemac Encycleopedia No.'s Enc 4: 73 Enc 5: 260 Enc 6: 1120 Enc 93/4: 1960 Enc 94/5-BG3: 1456 Enc 96: 1910 US Enc 5: 3806 German Enc 5: 1908 German Enc 6: 175 Bike Culture Quarterly Magazine BCQ1: 176 BCQ2: 737 BCQ4: 1183 BCQ6: 68 BCQ7: 2685 BCQ8: 1055 BCQ9: 752 BCQ10: 5 BCQ11: 582 BCQ12: 673 BCQ13: 620 BCQ14: 333 BCQ15: 943 BCQ16: 997 BCQ17: 1190 BCQ18: 1420 BCQ18 German: 480 BCQ19: 520 BCQ19 German: 1180 BCQ20: 2640 BCQ20 German: 960 BCQ Mini 5: 3927 BCQ Mini 6: 3991 Bicycle Magazine Bycy 1: 400 Bycy 2: 280 Bycy 3: 250 Bycy 4: 189 Bycy 5: 634 Bycy 6: 328 Bycy 7: 495 Bycy 8: 180 Bycy 9: 170 Bycy 10: 1480 Bycy 11: 995 Bycy 12: 1760 13 Bicycle Binders 6 BCQ Binders 4840 Galoshes 7 Ties and Pins 10 Encycleopedia Show banners Various posters List of stock currently in Holland (only a select amount of the items listed below belong to Open Road, ownership is yet to be determined) Bike Culture Quarterly BCQ1: 234 BCQ2: 145 BCQ4: 390 BCQ5: 349 BCQ6: 165 BCQ7: 45 BCQ8: 249 BCQ9: 97 BCQ10: 186 BCQ11: 141 BCQ12: 56 BCQ13: 117 BCQ14: 149 BCQ15: 42 BCQ16: 83 BCQ17: 65 BCQ18: 26 Mini Bike Culture 5: 5637 Mini Bike Culture 6: 300 German Translations: 91 Encycleopedia 93 Encycleopedia 94/5 & BCQ3: 329 Encycleopedia 96: 111 Video's Encycleopedia 96: 49 Encycleopedia 4 (97): 101 Video's Encycleopedia 1997: 111 Videos bij Encycleopedia: 5 Binders: 9 T-shirt BCQ B/W LF: 6 T-shirt BCQ B/W LB: 4 T-shirt BCQ B/W XLF: 6 T-shirt BCQ B/W XLB: 6 T-shirt BCQ COLOR LF: 5 T-shirt BCQ COLOR LB: 3 T-shirt BCQ COLOR XLF: 3 T-shirt BCQ COLOR XLF: 3 Posted on 30 January 2001 Your comments ...
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