Wileyone,
Seems to be sparse details of Tommy Quick's frame buildng career and no doubt you have seen the following already:
There is an article on Classic Lightweights, a thread on Retrobike with some info and a letter by Kilgariff mentioning shop builders in early 60's. Piecing this info together TJQ would likely be in his nineties by now although I have no idea if he is still with us. From article discussion looks like he must have started his frame building career at Holdsworth sometime in 40's. "H
e built his first frame in the garden shed, took it to Holdsworths and asked them to check it over and they offered him a job as a frame builder so that was where he started."
There is evidence that he opened his own shop by at least early 50's. He is described as building frames "for the trade" as at Roy Thame's Putney WF Holdsworth shop becoming the shop "specials" builder by early 70's according to Kilgariff.
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