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Many thanks. Best wishes for a Happy Christmas and New Year.

Hi Very impressive indeed, and as close to an original as possible after 50 years! I have yet to finish my own TP renovation and if you are OK with it could I get a couple or three from you, please? Happy to share with costs of production. Andrew

Sorry - didn't get the photos. There is a limit to size of files which may be preventing their being sent. Curiouser and curiouser. Almost certainly the Pollard decal refers to the Coventry frame builder. So is it a Pollard rather than a Pritchard? As other contributors have said it was common...

Re: That's impressive and pretty close to the original as I remember it. As I said earlier, I cannot vouch for the actual wording in the top left (if indeed there was any) but it's not out of place. I agree that the original size looks lost on the head tube (particularly as mine is a 25"...

Re: From memory it read Chobham Surrey in the bottom RH corner. Less reliably memory-wise it could have had "Hand Built By" or similar in top left, but I can't swear to it. The original is now sanded off and under several layers of primer so I can no longer check for you. If you haven't done...

Re: Hi On reflection the white bits on the small decals may originally have been gold but I can't be entirely sure. I have tried to attach a photo but don't know if it will work! Let me know.

Re: Ted Pritchard Hi. I had similar problem and spent many hours without success trying to locate decals. The head and seat tubes had a small decal about 30mm wide resembling a square shield with the name Ted Pritchard in block capitals diagonally across it. The background was white and the...

Hard enough on 2 wheels - tricyclists are gluttons for punishment! I knew a couple of Farnborough CC members - always some friendly rivalry when we congregated in Rumbles cycle shop in North Camp on a Saturday. Great days.

Mud, mud, glorious mud! I must confess I was spectator rather than competitor!!

Thankk you. Very interesting. He was a likeable guy by all accounts. I passed the shop a couple of times in the early 60s on the way to Cyclo-cross events on Chobham Common but never went inside (probably because events were held on a Sunday?). My No 4966 frame has what look like Nervex seat...

Re: Thanks Jamie. I had heard that TP bought ready-mades from Holdsworth but the date of my frame doesn't tally with their numbering sequence. The lugs on the frame aren't the same as any I've seen on vintage Holdsworths although they were using Nervex in the late 1950s. But if they are Nervex...

Hi - I'm new to Retrobike, having joined as I'm researching my 25.5 inch Ted Pritchard frame (No 4966) - It possibly has Nervex lugs and Campag dropouts and a Magistroni headset. I acquired it back in 1963/64/65 from a clubmate who had owned it for a few years so I guess it was built in late...