Can I refer the honourable gentleman, to my previous reply in post 18 of this thread........I love old steel frames generally but not curly Hetchins. Just wrong - look like they have been rear-ended by a car.
But whatever takes your fancy - wish I had a few to put up on Ebay...
the curly stays are a marketing piece; back in the day, it was forbidden for the name of the bike's manufacturer to be present on a frame in a race, so to stand out, the manufacturers had to innovate. Hence hetchins' curly stays, and bates' diaderant forks…