For Sale: 1954 Claud Butler 531 Track Frame

Claud Butler World's Championship Sprint Reynolds 531 track frame from 1954 with stunning lugwork and very fine tubing. 58cm ctt seat tube, 58cm ctc top tube.

£150 £140 £130 £125 posted in the UK, paypal gift please. Dibs then pm me for payment details please. SOLD

Frame number 1555 542, which dates it as a Feb 1954 build. Using the excellent Claud Butler resource and particularly the CB 1954 catalogue (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nkilgariff/CBcats/Cat_54/CB1954_Cat.htm) I've identified it as a World's Championship Sprint - the top of the range frame - due to:

• Seat stays chamfered and wrapped over at seat cluster
  
• 1" top tube
  
• Round to oval to round pencil chainstays
  
• Reinforced end plates to curved seat stay bridge
  
• Matching fancy lugs on page 3 fig 8.
  
  

I am not a CB expert though so if anyone else know different please say. This would make it a close clearance frame for 27" wheels without guards, so will fit 700c nicely (8mm smaller bead diameter). Here's the catalogue entry from 54:

The bad points:

• a crappy rattle can paint job that is chipped and rusty in various places and particularly on the tob tube, though only surface rust, this frame needs refinishing.
  
• no original forks (though I'm throwing in the modern Alu fork currently fitted with the frame).
  
• rear brake bridge has been drilled.
  
  

Someone must have loved it fairly recently as it is a Campag Chorus BB (some surface rust on the tapers but it turns easy enough and appears serviceable), a Campag Chorus headset (suspect it is the wrong size though as the cups can be turned by hand) and a Campag seatpin, all of which come with it.

Photos:

Any more photos required can be supplied, just ask. Cheers.

Too expensive? Price drop bump.

Why has this not sold? An absolute steal, alas too big...

I thought it would be liked on lfgss too. Price dropped again to £130.

Why has this not sold? An absolute steal, alas too big...

This is lovely. Where are you based? How long is the top tube?

58cm ctc top tube.

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Ah yes. I hate reading off a phone.

Price dropped, now down to £125 posted.

This is bargain!

It was only £16 new!

I'd snap it up but slightly too small for me.

It was only £16 new!

£16 in 1954 = £359.43 today according to the Bank of England inflation calculator.

And that didn't include postage!

bargain

Is the bb threaded then? If it spins freely usually means its buggered,

fuck is this sold? I would have bought it in a second if I'd seen it..

Is the bb threaded then? If it spins freely usually means its buggered,

I meant the spindle spins freely, not the bb shell.

fuck is this sold? I would have bought it in a second if I'd seen it..

Yup, sold.