How many more seconds until the names "Nobilette" and "Herse" come up in th is discussion?
Matthew Bowne Brooklyn, New York
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> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:27:22 -0800
> From: hetchinspete1@yahoo.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> CC: len@nutwood30.free-online.co.uk
> CC: twrawson@comcast.net
> CC: flash@flashq.de
> Subject: [CR]When is Hetchins a truly a Hetchins.
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> This debate came up yesterday once more with a fellow CR Member by email
as there are two Hetchins frames on Ebay from the mid 1980s, and the other
member proposed to me in his humble opinion that any Hetchins produced once
Hetchins was purchased by Bob Jackson, and later, and not produced under t
he watchful eye of the hetchins family is really not a true Hetchins. I see
the poiint and it might be valid, but I'm on the fence as to whether I agr
ee. As Mercedes or whoever bought Chrysler a few years ago, now are they a
Chrysler or a Mercedes.
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> From a common sense point, atleast in my way of thinking, if the compan
y is sold from one entity to another, the company retains it's lineage in a
proper way. If however Hetchins had been defunct for a number of years and
someone started producing frames under the name and logo, but had not purc
hased the rights to produce the brand from the prior owner, then the lineag
e is broken & suspect at best.
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> Opinions anyone !!
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> Peter Naiman
> Glendale, WI