Thanks for sharing this, enjoyed reading through the retrobike thread. Many of the highs and lows of effing about with vintage bikes! Seems pretty standard to get your plans straight only to find something like the bottom bracket is incompatible with anything you want to do :)
1939 Claud Butler https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373341109836
This featured on Retrobike a while back http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=386371&hilit=Claud+Butler+stars+and+stripes
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