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Leader Cycles
The brand name of Ted Woodall, a south London builder of high reputation.
I'm quite surprised to find that the V-CC has no marque enthusiast, but there's a fair amount of information on the internet.
It's been suggested that Woodall built the 'Hercules' frames used by Hercules pros in the fifties (Ken Joy, Eileen Sheridan etc.) and this certainly seems likely because they were managed by Frank Southall who was a Norwood Paragon man.
He also built for Jensen, which supplied prestigious frames to top south London riders.
Jensen was run by John Barclay, a Pedal Club member, now in his tenth decade, who had a very long career as a coach, and has only recently stopped taking young hopeful 'coureurs' to Belgium. So doubtless Woodall's frames saw plenty of action in Belgian kermesses
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Just out of interest. I brought this one back to life a couple of years ago, 'The Leader' a Leader track frame from I believe 1948. If anyone has any info on Leaders - old not new! Then I'd be very interested to hear.
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