Hilary: Your probably correct about being only one of two from 1949. Looking closely at the photo, shifter bosses and fender eyelets were added at a later date. I wish that I had closeups of the dropouts to see if they are correct. Even with all this, somebody will still get a gorgious frame to enjoy. Peter Naiman Boston, Mass
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> From: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Date: 2003/04/19 Sat PM 02:54:01 EDT
> To: <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Hetchins on Ebay - now Hetchins Six-Day
>
> The Six-Day Hetchins was a model from Hetchins with a fluted seat tube
> (fluted at the rear) and was available in road or track versions and with a
> variety of lugwork including Super Special. The fluted seat tube enabled a
> full 27in wheel to be used with a mudguard despite short chainstays (from
> memory I think 16in) with a 39 1/2in wheelbase. The Six-Day model was named
> after the Hetchins machines used by Cor Wals, Van Kempen and O'Brien in the
> Wembley Six-Day race in 1938. The fluted seat tube was developed originally
> for the SWB Competition tandem which was developed in response to Claud
> Butler's curved seat tube SWB tandem and Saxon's twin seat tube SWB tandem
> and was first used on solo machines produced for that Wembley Six-Day.
> This particular frame may well be one of two Super Special Six-Day
> models from 1949 surviving though there were many more Super Special
> Six-Days built.
>
> Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
>
> David Bilenkey wrote:
> > And road dropouts, and brake cable stops, and a shifter boss. This clearly
> > isn't a track bike. Are there 6 day races that aren't track races? Or am I
> > missing something. Too big for me, but I'm curious.
> >
> >> vze4k5n6@verizon.net writes:
> >>
> >> http://ebay.com/
> >>
> >>
> >> Did they use headlights for six day races?
> >> This seems to have a mount for a headlight on the fork.
> >>
> >> Pete Geurds
> >> Douglassville, PA