[CR]Fw: Alf Hetchins origins.

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From: "Thomas Rawson" <twrawson@comcast.net>
To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:42:27 -0800
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Subject: [CR]Fw: Alf Hetchins origins.

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Tom Rawson
Oakland, CA


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To: Peter Naiman
Cc: Michael Butler


<lpernice@juno.com>; "Tom Rawson" <twrawson@comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:14 PM Subject: Re: Alf Hetchins origins.


> Y'all,
>
> Alf was born on 24 Sept 1923, in 780 Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham.
> Alf's parents, Hyman and his wife, fled Russia in 1917.
>
> There is a rather disturbing foto of World's Champion Toni Merkens
> riding a track iron and wearing a jersey with a swastika on it; Len has
> a fotocopy of of it. Merkens was not German, but rode for German teams.
> He was later sent to the Russian front and never heard from again. There
> is no small irony in his having won World's and Olympic Championships
> riding on a London Jew's bikes.
>
> The SuperSpecial model was introduced before anyone ever heard of the

> SS.

>

> Flash