I'm organizing some of the photo's I took when I visited different framebuilders while I was learning to build bikes in England in 1975. I want to send them to Dale so he can scan them for the CR site. One that was most helpful with tips was the framebuilder for F.W. Evans. He built them in the basement below the retail shop. This store probably got more than it's share of foreign visitors because it was in central London just around the corner from the a major train station and tube (subway) stop (Waterloo, I think, or was it Victoria?).
Does anyone know his name?
Another question is about the names of Harry Quinn's brothers that also ran a retail and framebuilding shop in Liverpool separate from Harry's. I think their were 2 of them running this store in 1975. These frames were called R.J. Quinn. I have a picture of one of them with a young apprentice. What I vaguely remember from my conversation with him was that their were 5 brothers at one time and they started learning right after World War I. 1917 sticks in my mind but it could have been earlier or later by a couple of years. I am not sure which brother he was talking about or if it was when he personally started. I remember thinking, whoa, this goes way back there.
Doug Fattic
Niles, Michigan