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@jeff80
this is what I'm building up at the moment-a bargain (of sorts) from Muswell Hill Cycle jumble. I'm going to keep it scruffy and as is, as I rather like the faded transfers and last vestiges of paint, and I want a frame I can use and lock up around town, at the pub etc. That said it will, naturally, be pretty much period correct. Its number suggests 1952 and interestingly the braze on for cables, downtube levers etc seem original-pretty early for a UK built frame I think (I'm sure one of you will correct me if I'm wrong!) Oddly- the are the remains of two rivets in the correct place for an Ellis Briggs 50s period head badge in the head tube -but also a Head tube transfer underneath where the head badge would have been...
I have some parts that came off my RRA that will go on, a simplex 'suicide' rod front changer, some nice old pedals and Catos adjustable toe clips, and some Reynolds Pelissier Handlebars with GB Hiduminium brakes (a bit early, but still.) I spent a few hours this afternoon cleaning and lacquering the frame withe a matte lacquer, to stop the paint/transfers etc getting worse but to keep the overall 'look'. It seems to have worked surprisingly well!
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