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Two more Roadster pictures:
Westwood rim with presta valve. There's a home made plastic washer between the tube valve and the rim to prevent the tube getting damaged by the large hole intended for a Woods valve.
Back brake. More complicated than usual, but not really more efficient! The frame and brakes are Sunbeam - I'm not really a fan of this marque, but they just seem to turn up. Sunbeams were expensive, but it seems to me that they got away with this by heavy advertising rather than by offering a good product. They were originally made by John Marston Engineering, but when this firm went over to war production in the late thirties the bike making went first to AMC motorcycles and then to BSA, who made this frame. Eventually the brand went into the TI/Raleigh black hole.
Let's hope that any more photos will show that I've ridden it somewhere interesting.
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