Re: [CR]H.E.Green

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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:13:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [CR]H.E.Green
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Mark Stevens <mountgerald@btopenworld.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <002301c50d68$e4ff3ea0$ff7e2c50@DJN4ZQ0J>


I have had H E Green's frame building records plus a notebook in which he sketched out fancy lug designs - from these I have no doubt that he built his own frames. He set up his own shop in 1953 and closed in 1965 after building 631 frames. I do have some notes I did from an interview I conducted in the mid to late 1980s which I can look out...

Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
> From: "Mark Stevens" <mountgerald@btopenworld.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:18:33 -0000
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: [CR]H.E.Green
>
> I do know that Doc Green started at Gillotts just after the war as a lug
> filer. Harry Carrington told me they tried to teach him to use a torch but
> he nearly set fire to the workshop. He set up on his own later and produced
> nice work but HC always doubted if he built the frames himself. This may or
> may not be sour grapes from HC because HE plagiarised Gillotts script logo
> and the badge design. They looked almost identical.
> Mark Stevens Dingwall Scotland