I'm sorry I didn't see this post at the time it went up. I still have my track frame made in 1956 by W.O H. Huth. The shop was in Mainsteet - I think it was 149. We argued about the size of the frame - I wanted a 24" frame - and he said that he did not recommend a frame as large as this. He said that the largest frame he had made was a 23" - this being for George Eastman - who was the same height as me - but he agreed in the end to make it a 24". I asked for 74 degrees parallel - but the available lugs only allowed for a 72 degree seat tube angle In 1958 I had a road bike made by DHC - but this is long gone - i sold it in 1962. I had a long and regular exchange of letters with Mr Huth between 1956 and 1062. Deale was the financier the silent partner - Huth the engineer. Interestingly one of his earlier business ventures was the Fontana Bakery - which he started in the late forties in Hillbrow. My track bike was No. 112 and he told me that it was one of a batch of three frames made at the same time. The other two - 111 and 113 - were for Jimmy Swift and Bobby Fowler - for their participation in the Olympic Games track events of that year. Jimmy Swift won a bronze in the 1000m time trial with a time of 1:11:6. The last time I saw Mr Huth was in 1977 - when My brother Tom and I rode out see him at his house near Uncle Charlies. He was a serious student of history - and was spending his retirement writing a History of the World! Later, he gave my brother the wooden jig that he used to establish the frame angles and wheel clearances. All Huth's frames were made with Nervex lugs and Reynolds 531. There was a little transfer on the seat tube - a rider speeding headlong down a hill, with the legend below "Awheel and Away with Deale and Huth" Due to various crashes my track bike has had three sets of forks -two from Huth - the third were bought in 1976 from Basil Cohen, who had by then taken over the business. These are probably Carlton forks - as DHC wasn't being manufactured any more. The frame is being restored at the moment - but unfortunately i have lost the head badge - if anyone knows where I could find one I'd be very greteful. The design incorporated a winged eagle - with the letters DHC in the centre. You cen find me at learmont@iafrica.com
