Mick; Yes this frame does have the fluted seat tube, although I didn't get a picture of it. It was about twenty degrees out yesterday when I shot those jpgs, and I was in a bit of a hurry to shoot real quickly and get back in. Once it warms up a bit and things are green again, I'll work on better shots for the album.
To my knowledge the 6-Days were built with normal horizontal dropouts in the rear, and always with fluted seat tube, and set up for atleast a front brake if not front and rear. My 1950 Magnum Opus 6-Day has the same configuration. After talking to Len Ingram, in the UK, he confirms all I've written. He doesn't recall a Hetchin's 6-day with track dropouts.
Peter Naiman
Shorewood, WI
> Can one of the Hetchins experts on the list answer a
> few questions about this beautiful machine. I had
> always thought that all the "Six-Day" models were
> track irons. Why has this one got road ends? The
> other query I have is don't "Six Day" models have
> the butchered seat tube, the one that looks like it
> has a crease in the rear of it? Has this one got
> this type of seat tube? Can't tell from the
> pictures.
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> 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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