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I have several:
HARRY QUINN ROAD FRAME 1972
Seat Tube (ctt): 55cm (21.5in)
Top Tube (ctc): 55cm (21.25in)
Rear dropout width: 126mm
Wheel size: Sprints/700C (brake drop 51mm)
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531 double butted
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Harry Quinn from Liverpool had an enviable reputation as a framebuilder and many of the frame builders from the north-west learnt their skills from him. This frame dates from late 1972 and is in very sound condition. The fastback/shot-in seatstays are a very distinctive feature of Harry Quinn’s work. It could easily be used as a very cool conversion. £95
DENTON ROAD FRAME 1963 by Mercian
Seat Tube (ctt): 55cm (21.5in)
Top Tube (ctc): 54cm (21.25in)
Rear dropout width: 120mm
Wheel size: 27s or Sprints/700C with brake drop of 60mm
Frame tubing: Reynolds 531 double butted
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
This frame was built by Mercian in 1963 for Dentons, a bicycle shop in Newcastle. It has the very distinctive Mercian seatstay wrapover which was introduced in the late 1950s and continued through to the late 60s. The paint and chrome are really rather good - there are some marks that can be cleaned off and it will then be a very attractive frame. It would make a very straightforward conversion. £135
PEARSON ROAD FRAME 1960s
Seat Tube (ctt): 53cm (21in)
Top Tube (ctc): 55cm (21.5in)
Rear dropout width: 125mm
Wheel size: 27s or 700C/sprints with brake drop of 63mm
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
This is a rather nicely built Pearson road frame which dates from the 1960s or early 1970s - its in very good condition and will make a great fixed or singlespeed conversion. £120
FREDDIE GRUBB ROAD FRAME
Seat Tube (ctt): 55cm (21.5in)
Top Tube (ctc): 53cm (21in)
Rear dropout width: 120mm
Wheel size: 27s or 700C/sprints with brake drop of 62mm
Seatpost size: 26.4mm
This Freddie Grubb road frame with bags of character from the early 1960s is built from Reynolds 531 tubing throughout and the paint is in good condition, certainly very useable though it would benefit from some careful touching up. It will make an excellent fixed or singlespeed conversion. £95
SWINNERTON ROAD FRAME c1989
Seat Tube (ctc): 53cm (21in)
Top Tube (ctc): 55cm (21.5in)
Rear dropout width: 128mm
Wheel size: 700C (brake drop 44mm)
Seatpost size: 27.2mm
Frame Tubing: Reynolds 653
This Swinnerton road frame built from the light Reynolds 653 tubing is in very good condition except for some paint scrapes on the right-hand seatstay. It could well have been built by George Longstaff (George’s daughter managed the Swinnerton shop) and their top frames were built by Longstaffs for quite a period of frame - it certainly shows some George Longstaff details. In my opinion George Longstaff was probably the finest British framebuilder of the last twenty years of the 20th century. It would make a very cool fixed or singlespeed conversion. £149