[CR] Harris Bucklin's Pollard

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From: "Peter Brown" <peterg.brown@ntlworld.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:24:24 +0000
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Cc: harrisbucklin@gmail.com
Subject: [CR] Harris Bucklin's Pollard


<<...in its original paint from all that i can tell, and according to the previous owner. >>

Interesting...

Anyone else have a Pollard in original form?

The reason I am puzzled is that it seems odd that the down tube decals/transfers would feature a different font that the seat tube transfers!

I acquired a Pollard frame last year which had been entirely hand painted over, so there were no transfers at all. It had been bought from a charity shop which was in the same road where the frame was originally built. I wanted to do a faithful refinish on it and build it up similar to how my brother had his machine in the 1940s, but transfers were not available. I did some research among V-CC members, some of whom had dealings with Pollard and used his shop, and found that there were 2 down tube transfers used, the one on Harris Bucklin's down tube, and a script W & E Pollard one. There was only one style of head badge known, which is the one on Harry's frame. I was helped by one member particularly who did me scans of what is probably the only surviving unused set of original transfers which he obtained from the now closed Pollard shop in Coventry, and I was able to redraw the script set for Nick at Lloyds to print, and they are now on his list. I have never seen or heard of seat tube lettering on a Pollard, nor have I seen that style of lettering on a Pollard.

Although the frames with the crossover seat stays were in what was commonly known as the Hellenic style, Pollards referred to theirs as cantilever style. You can see pics of my brother racing his 1947 cantilever on the Pollard page at http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/builders/pollard.html

There are also pics of my machine at http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/314160699 including one of my brother riding it 60 years on from his original photos.

Peter Brown, Lincolnshire, England