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@Lukas
A few years ago I joined a local club (Manchester Wheelers) and started riding the Monday night club 10 with a few mates from the local fixed scene. I quickly got 'the bug', and after a winter spent getting familiar with the indoor track, gaining accreditation, and circling with the club's Masters Team Pursuit riders when they were a man down during club sessions, I discovered the need for something a little lower than the bike I was on at the time (more on that later).
That's when I heard about these mystical frames.
In early 2015, an innocuous meeting with a friend at a Metrolink stop (to trade some P-Clips), and a quick chat about the kind riding we were doing, led him to mention this obscure frame I hadn't heard of before, that he used to own and use on track and for fixed time trialling fixed, stating that it was the 'only frame he ever regretted selling'. It was a rare variant of the popular Dolan Track Champion, named the Pursuit Champion.
After cycling home, an online search led to zero official information, although through various forums I discovered the following:
That's all I knew about it, but with my saddle at the UCI '50mm behind BB' limit on my existing frame (with 565mm top tube) and with a head tube that would clearly accommodate the drop in bar height I wished for, combined with the 'sleeper factor' of appearing to the untrained eye like 'just another Dolan' while being this rare unicorn, I had to have one.
Or eventually two.
Or maybe even three if another one came up...