SOLD - Mid 70s Raleigh factory Frame

ITEM NOW SOLD

Moved this from my post in the Components sub-forum.

Mid 70s Raleigh factory Frame - with fork, handlebars, GB quill stem, headset, Weinnmann front brake caliper. ISO BB - bearings will need replacing, hopefully not the whole unit. Surface rust on the frame.

It has a 57cm seat tube (C-T) and a 58cm top tube.
From the serial number printed and using this guide, IF it's a 70s Raleigh, it looks like it's a Nottingham factory frame built in December 1974 (serial: NS4229457).
I'm not sure whether it's a Raleigh, possibly a Carlton [note: according to @midlife it could be a Sun due to the arrangement of the badge holes]. I've looked at lots of the catalogues and it looks a little like a Carlton Criterion, but can't be sure (according to this guy Carltons were built at the Worksop AND Nottingham factories) .

I'm around Dalston / Hackney / Shoreditch most days, feel free to ask any questions, inc. postage - PM me here.

£35

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Anyone?

Serial states Nottingham factory frame built in Dec '74.

Raleigh head badge had 3 holes and Carlton head badge had 2 holes side by side. The Sun badge had vertical holes quite wide apart like that frame so may have left the Raleigh factory badged as a Sun..

Crespera lugs were always smart :)

Glwts

Shaun

@fossalauk N for Nottingham, and S was for December, as far as that guide says.

@midlife Thanks for the info, it's been a mystery to me and to the person I bought it from last year.

Price drop btw

If you look very carefully the GB stem has a hole in it for a centre pull brake....Worth more than 20 quid itself :).

Shaun

Thanks Shaun, maybe I'll unprice drop it. I can't give the frame the time or attention I wanted to, so if someone thinks they'd like to restore it then please do get in touch.

Definitely worth more than £30 in my opinion. Lovely looking frame, and the bars and stem. The wrapover seat stay, I don't think any of the Raleigh-badged ones had that.

PMd re bars+stem

PMd2 re bars+stem

Some Raleigh badged frames had wrapover stays and Crespera lugs. Like this Europa

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/SPOKESMAN/BICYCLES/Europa.jpg
Shaun

PMd3 - bars+stem+bake

PMd3 - bars+stem+bRake obvs!

Glws

Dibs as per PM