you could be on to something there thanks! my serial no. matches the style & placement on parkes. Now to find one with matching lugs and/or dropouts :)
Like I said, the dropouts would have been specified by the owner because the earlier Parkes bikes were built to order. Lugs weren’t really being fancy cut in the 40s so you got what there was available (happy to be corrected on that though).
you could be on to something there thanks! my serial no. matches the style & placement on parkes. Now to find one with matching lugs and/or dropouts :)