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"Despite selling his business to Geoff, Ron Cooper stayed on at the workshop, effectively as Geoff’s employee but still building frames under his own name. "
Now that I didn't know. I assumed when I used to pop in that it was Ron's business and Geoff was working for him! I got my "Ron Cooper" built in 1987, so I guess Geoff might have had a hand in it. Pretty crazy to think that what I thought of as my humble LBS was the base for two such amazing frame builders.
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Interestingly, a Ron Cooper could be a Geoff Roberts and vice versa- they shared a workshop in Honor Oak and would sometimes help each other out with urgent orders. See newly posted history of Geoff Roberts here (at the bottom of the page) complete with photos (enclosed shows Geoff at work) https://www.lcc.org.uk/articles/roberts-cycles. Other shot shows a rare Roberts penny-farthing built while they were in forest Hill.