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@Haunted_Velo
Been chatting to the maker of these frames today in the Clarion House tea room in Pendle.
Ken Hartley is his name. Fascinating bloke of 81 years, and chairman of blackburn ctc.
The bikes were made for kids at Norden School in Rishton to borrow and ride kirby velodrome.
He also made some for Manchester before they started buying them from Dolan.
The frames were made by re-using tubes from bikes that big blokes had damaged or donated.
Obviously salvaging the good bits, so to provide kids with decent stuff to ride at the track in a cost effective manner. He told me about the angles being 71 degrees with a slightly up sloping top tube, braised together with a big bag of old lugs he still has.
They were powder coated by a mate at cost using whatever colour was in the machine at the time.
Ken is is a retired engineer and his workshop is now in a room in his house.
Hope this helps,
Haunted Velo