....plagiarised from earlier posts:
"Ken Ryall had built a number of frames himself earlier in his career but later used a number of frame builders to produce them to his specification. Holdsworth and Gillott were certainly two he used especially earlier on. Later on he also had frames built by Jack Hearne, whose workshop was near to Slough station. Jack was an exceptional builder and is now very underrated, he also built all the top end Roy Thame frames (even though Roy was manager at Holdsworth!). The builder that built two of my '70s Ryalls was Stan Pike. He was one of the very best builders ever and built many a record breaker's frame."
Here's what Hilary Stone wrote about Ken: "Ken Ryall’s shop was in Staines Road Hounslow just to the west of London"
He's also written this: "Ken Ryall frames were built by a number of different framebuilders - Wally Green built some of the early framebuilders, Stan Pike built some of the later ones (he’d learnt framebuilding at Wally Greens) and many were built by Holdsworth."
Ken was also the 1st team driver/mechanic on Tom Simpsons fateful 1967 Tour de France
your frame most likely is Reymolds 531 tubing with Nervex Professional lugs, are the dropouts Campagnolo?
Griff
