Hugh,
Thanks for the Gillott dating advice. I'm hoping to see this frame again in a week or two and I'll check out the serial number then. Can you say when the Edwardes period for Gillotts started?
Thanks again,
Bruce
> From: "Hugh Thornton" <hughwthornton@hotmail.com>
> Bruce, pre-Edwardes Gillotts have the last two digits of the year as the
> first two digits of the frame number. e.g. 56xxxx is a 1956 frame. The
> following digits were an ongoing sequence number. I have the original
order
> forms for two made-to-order frames and no model name was quoted. I regret
> that I don't know if they generally used model names or not.
Interestingly,
> these orders did not even specify the tubing, other than one of them
> specifying a 531 decal in the list of transfers. The other frame, in its
> original finish, does not have a tubing decal.