Schucks!(is that how it's spelt in America!) How could I forget Brian Warnet ! Thanks for pointing that out Mike. I have seen his name many times but didn't realise he was a frame-builder or actually went back to the 50s. It's interesting that you're a friend of Tony Oliver. I only met him once, at York Rally or perhaps Harrogate Show, but didn't have much of a chance to talk the talk frame-building-wise with him. Has he given up frame-building, and if so, why? He was probably set fair to become UK's next Jack Taylor ( but with better finishing to the welding) or even Britain's first Rene Herse. Sorry I'm getting obsessed with the Frenchman..
Down there in the big metropolis you have more Bike Jumbles.. and bigger ones than us up north ;we just have to rely on finding Singers in haystacks. I reckon you would be doing List members a favour if you could find us some bargain copies of Tony's book at the Jumbles. I'm certainly in the market for what I've been told is an excellent read. Word around the cottage framebuilding industry up here in the Dales was that Tony was "Hi-tech". I suppose that refers to the fact that he used a lathe to mitre his tubes, while we were still chewing off the waste 531 with our eye-teeth, and lighting up our torches with a magnifying glass directing the sun on to the haystack.
around the same time there was another builder down ST Neots way or Norfolk who built severe testing frames for the UK's long-time best allrounder.. can't remember his name but can see his head-tube sticker... Do you remember him Mick. He was high tech too.. a thinking man's framebuilder.
Norris Lockley ... just wishing I could think straight.. amon the haystacks in Settle UK