please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message the distinctive lugwork of a hetchins headtube hetchins originally hetchin s lightweight cycle specialists simplified to hetchins lightweights since 1993 is a brand of bicycle frame . it takes its name from the founder of the firm hyman hetchin . hyman hetchin was a russian jew who fled the bolshevik revolution around 1917 and settled in britain . by 1922 hetchin had opened a shop in seven sisters road tottenham north london selling household appliances including gramophones sheet music shellac 78 rpm records and later bicycles . note 1 note 2 1 2 at first hetchin resold mass produced bicycles including raleigh and rudge . jack denny was a london frame builder who had a shop at 194 wandsworth road not far from seven sisters road . note 1 denny had experimented with an innovative design involving curved stays ; hetchin recognized the marketing potential of the design partnered with denny and patented the design in 1934 . 3 2 from then on hetchin stopped re selling other bicycle marques and produced and sold only his own . the partnership soon brought rewards in the form of olympic and world s championship victories in 1936 . sales were strong thereafter reaching a pre war peak of over 600 frames in 1938 and 500 in 1939 . the war years saw production fall to below 200 frames per year ; sales did not recover until 1953 . 4 these are remarkable figures for a shop which consisted of one man who took care of sales and marketing hyman hetchin and one frame builder jack denny . in the 1950s additional help was recruited consisting of part time lug cutters including ken janes and frame builders chiefly bob stratfull and stan broom . 5 the partnership endured past hyman s death in 1961 when hyman s son alfred alf took over the business . apart from the patented curly or vibrant stays hetchin s frames were and still are known for ornate and often hand cut lugwork . other design innovations are attributed to hetchin denny such as a fluted seat tube on six day racers this brings the rear wheel closer to the seat tube than on conventional bicycle frames shortening the wheelbase . 6 hetchin supported many racers and racing teams especially track and six day contestants over the years . in 1974 the shop moved to southend on sea forced due to re zoning of the tottenham property . alf continued to manage the business until his retirement in 1986 when he sold the shop to a london businessman . for a short time hetchins and bob jackson cycles leeds were fused but the two marques separated in 1993 . since 1993 the hetchins operation has been centered in preston uk under the management of david miller ; the current frame builder is paul riley . 7 jack denny was born in 1906 and died in 1991 . alf hetchin was born 24 sept. 1923 and died at the age of 72 a few years after jack denny . 7 hetchins lightweights continues to produce bespoke lugged steel bicycle frames . approximately 12 000 frames have been produced to date 2015 counting from 1934 of which some 16 % are known to have survived . the frames are highly sought by collectors . references edit weldon flash 2007 . heine jan ed . hetchins vibrant stays and ornate lugs . vintage bicycle quarterly . vol . 5 no. 4 . seattle wa . pp. 38 42 . a b penn robert april 26 2011 . diamond soul . it s all about the bike the pursuit of happiness on two wheels . bloomsbury publishing usa . p. 39 . weldon . patent specification no. 443 545 ; facsimile . hetchins.org . stone hilary spring 2001 . clayton nick ed . hetchins frame numbering production and sales numbers . the boneshaker the journal of the veteran cycle club . vol . 16 no. 155 . cheshire uk . pp. 40 41 . weldon . hetchins production history builder s time cards courtesy of hetchins lightweights . hetchins.org . o neill hugh september 1982 . a marque of distinction . bicycle magazine . pp. 31 35 . a b weldon flash . hetchins subsequent history of the marque . hetchins.org . hetchins . liffen john winter 1997 . clayton nick ed . the origins of the hetchins cycle business . the boneshaker the journal of the veteran cycle club . vol . 15 no. 145 . cheshire uk . pp. 20 25 . gallo lino may june 2015 . fatini massimo ed . hetchins barocco inglese english baroque . biciclette d epoca in italian . no. 13 . milano italy . pp. 42 49 . notes edit a b hilary stone has researched this in kelly s street directories 1914 1934 . john liffen has verified this in the rates books and electoral register . external links edit official website v t e british bicycle manufacturers current a bike bickerton boardman bootie brompton campion condor dawes defiance dolan ellis briggs enigma titanium falcon genesis halfords hetchins holdsworth islabikes lotus mercian moulton muddy fox orange paper pashley pedersen phillips planet x raleigh reynolds ridgeback robin hood saracen strida thorn ti group whyte defunct ariel bsa british eagle carlton claud butler chater lea coventry eagle coventry premier elswick hopper flying scot f.w. evans freddie grubb harry quinn hercules humber norman perry roberts rover royal enfield rudge whitworth sun sunbeam triumph viking warrick witcomb components brooks england dunlop middlemores saddles sturmey archer this article related to a bicycle manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hetchins & oldid 732664383 categories cycle manufacturers of the united kingdommanufacturing companies based in londoncycle manufacturer stubshidden categories use dmy dates from july 2013articles needing additional references from december 2010all articles needing additional referencescs1 italian language sources it all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 2 august 2016 at 12 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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