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Just bought this from Primitive Robot
The frame says Alec Bird but the lugs are Carlton Capella.
Is it an AB or a rebadged Carlton or a frame built by someone else?
Stamped on the BB shell is EO 529 been told EO were a make of BB shell.
All i know is Capella lugs stopped being used by Carlton in 1966 and Carlton closed in 1981.....Dave Marsh does not think it is a Carlton but i'm sending him some pics for him to ponder.......the 531 decal on the frame [using Nick Lloyds 531 decal timeline] date from at least 1984.
Conservative_values had this frame until 2010 [i have sent him a pm with loads of questions]...but he said on the 2010 thread ' recently resprayed'......so more likely [i believe] to be a sympathetic renovation than a respray and rebadge job.
AB or not AB?.....If not AB....What?