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British frame builder who worked for Condor, Paris, Mal Rees, Grubb, Claud Butler, and also on his own. The Editor received the following email from John Hunt:
Dear Editor, I'm a close friend of Bill Hurlow's and I've been showing him some of your site. He's 85 and still very fit with a photographic knowledge of the Hetchins period. I wish I could get him to write more things down but here are some things that might be added particularly with reference to the Ken Janes' piece. Bill says that the name Condor was formed from the first part of Wally Conway's name and his partner who had originally had a shop selling Triumph bikes at Triumph House. Wally Conway was Monty Young's brother-in-law and Monty's parents, Harry and Lotty Yarovitch, bought some of the business for Monty. When Bill built for Monty there had only been one or two poor Condors built, with very few orders. Bill transformed that and the rest is history. Bill never worked for Harry Rensch. Rensch had left Paris Cycles before Bill joined them as a Director. He worked with Harry [Rensch]'s ex-wife and wound up the business, eventually cutting up the jigs for the Paris Galibier! I think Bill will be known as one of the greatest framebuilders one day. I'm attaching a picture of his own intitial cut lug bike [see below]. This is his quality which matches anything ever done. Best wishes John Hunt.
The Condor catalog (see below) also paid tribute to Bill Hurlow's work.
For more information, please visit:
Classic Rendezvous, British Isles section
Classic Lightweights.
Click here for a lugless Hurlow feature.
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