Evening All, Clive Parker was a builder at Harry(Spanner)Rensch Paris cycle works. He then went to work for Mac Metcalf as a builder and then onto to Rivetts. To give them their full name Rivetts Leytonstone Ltd. They were located in the east end of London at 234/6/8 High Road, Leytonstone, London, E.11. A huge cycling shop that was founded in 1881. Clive was a good road man and whilst building frames at Paris he was also in their works team. The other Paris team members were A.H.Clarke, R.Morbey and H.Burvill they won the team prize in the 1948 Brighton to Glasgow race. They rode Galibiers Clarke came second overall with Clive Parker coming in sixth. Incidentally Jack Taylor was in this race as well. I was told by another ex Paris/Rensch builder that Clive prefered to build conventional lugged frames, I don't know if this is true or just another cycling myth. What is certain is that Clive built some wonderful frames at Rensch, Metcalf's and Rivetts. Finally Norris mentioned Ellis Champion and one of their famous riders Brian Robinson who rode one of their frames to second place in the 1954 Tour of Britain. Brian was the highest placed British rider that year and he also won the King of the Mountains event in that race. Another famous EB rider was Ken Russell who won the 1952 Tour of britain as well as winning three stages.
Oil up! Frank Ellingford London UK