Actually there are at least three good Jack Taylor web-sites:
Joel Metz's has tons of info:
http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
The Bike Brothers' site has a BBC documentary on JT Cycles:
http://www.bikebrothers.co.uk/
Old School Bicycles has some photos and other info:
http://oldschoolbicycles.com/
Cheers!
David G. White Burlington, VT
David G. White
Burlington, VT
Ph: 802-865-9100
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Michael Butler wrote:
>Hello Alan,
>Where the hell do you keep finding this stuff! Have
>you got some kind of special metal detector that
>locates this stuff in sheds and garages? You are right
>about there not being much on Taylors on the web. This
>is the little I know and if you don't mind will
>forward to the CR bods.
>Jack started frame making in 1936. Jack was the
>eldest one of the brothers he went to evening classes
>and learnt brazing. He is supposed to have taken a
>bike frame apart when he was 17 in 1936 and that's
>when it all started. Trial and error at first. Both he
>and Norman were pattern makers by trade.
>Jack purchased some land in 1942 and started building
>full-time. Then Ken was sacked from his job and joined
>the business. Next in was Norman but he had to go into
>the army. So the story goes Norman was working for
>Jack when he was thirteen filing up frames. The
>brothers are reputed to have trained 13 builders,
>Colin Laing being one of them.
>Their best year of production was 1963 when they made
>516 frames (includes 78 tandems). Top year for tandems
>was 1977 when they made 96. Their first tandem was
>made in 1951 for the Paris show. They finished in
>1990. All three of them were good roadmen and they
>raced together in the 1945 Brighton to Glasgow road
>race.
>Now you have a tandem you will have to join the TC
>it's only a tenner a year.
>
>
>
>Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.