Dawes history

Nunquam · Post by **Nunquam** » 23 May 2007, 11:47am

Can anyone tell me how to date a Dawes frame from the serial number?

And when did Dawes stop building frames in the UK?

R

robgul · Post by **robgul** » 23 May 2007, 1:54pm

Have tried to get date information from Dawes - they say there are no records! ... best bet is the old boy in the brown smock at the LBS who would be able to give a pretty good idea of age from the paint-job.

I don't know when Dawes stopped building frames in the UK - possibly 2002ish? I believe that to start with they stopped making frames and imported them from E Europe/Far East to assemble here in the UK ... but then changed to importing complete bikes.

Rob

Paul Smith SRCC · Post by **Paul Smith SRCC** » 24 May 2007, 2:25pm

Depends which type of frame it is, they were still making the Tandem frames when I went to see them in the early 90's

Paul Smith
www.bikeplus.co.uk

robgul wrote:Have tried to get date information from Dawes - they say there are no records! ... best bet is the old boy in the brown smock at the LBS who would be able to give a pretty good idea of age from the paint-job.

I don't know when Dawes stopped building frames in the UK - possibly 2002ish? I believe that to start with they stopped making frames and imported them from E Europe/Far East to assemble here in the UK ... but then changed to importing complete bikes.

Rob