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@Betty_Swollocks
....could be that Geoffrey and Claud decided on this move to split in Oct.1956 as Claud was already aware of dark clouds looming with his tax affairs (eventually went bankrupt a few months later and the Claud Butler name was sold on to Holdsworths who continued with this popular brand on their second tier bikes trading on the integrity of the name)