Hillary,
Thanks for the insight into not only De Rosa, but Raleigh and a few other marques.
It isn't often that George Longstaff gets mentioned here on bike forums.
I find it interesting that the discussion on single builders (as opposed to a production
shop, or single builder with 'apprentices') all seem to revolve around Italian builders.
There are more than a few similar threads in the CR list archives.
My experience is that the Dutch builders tended to be smaller one man shops( Zieleman) , or
family businesses (i.e RIH ). Do you have any comment on this? Am I wrong in my assumption
of the Dutch builders being closer to the mythical one man builder labouring over a jig?

Marty