Mick; Thank you the explanation, but I didn't view it as indicating there was anything false about the frame, just an oddity that may happen.
Best regards, Peter Naiman
Glendale, WI
> Hetchins didn't always do the repairs on the frames
> which were taken into their shop. This applies to
> both
> Tottenham and Southend.
> They often used other builders to do repairs for
> them.
> You have to remember that the majority of their
> earlier frames which were owned and ridden by real
> cyclists would have their old fashioned and dated
> fork
> ends replaced with modern Campagnolo ones,
> inevitably
> whilst this replacement was being carried out the
> rear
> triangle was re-spaced for modern 5 or 6 speed
> blocks
> and probably the original number was not put on.
> So please don't get bogged down in minutia regarding
> an H missing of the frame number etc. This ain't no
> big deal. Most of the older Hetchins I saw racing
> from the 60's through to the 1980's mostly had
> non-original front forks and modern rear dropouts,
> possibly without any numbers extant.
> And how about the original ones with no number
> present?
>
>
>
> Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in
> your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky
> Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
>
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