Re: [CR]F.W.Evans framebuilder

(Example: Production Builders:Tonard)

From: "Nic Henderson" <nic.henderson@ntlworld.com>
To: "Doug Fattic" <fatticbicycles@qtm.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <BEC4BA9C.5486%fatticbicycles@qtm.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]F.W.Evans framebuilder
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 19:10:06 +0100
reply-type=original

The framebuilder for F.W. Evans was more than likely Harry Healey. There is a scan from the 30.2.74 edition of 'Cycling' on the Evans page on my website about Harry called 'built to last the Evans way'. ( http://www.bikebrothers.co.uk/evans.htm ) Hilary Stone is an Evans expert (amongst other things!) I'm sure he could advise us. I'm not sure when Tom Board worked at Evans, probably before Harry Healey (Mick Butler where are you?)

Nic Henderson

South Wales

U.K.


----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Fattic
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:31 PM
Subject: [CR]F.W.Evans framebuilder



> 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