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The bike is built. Everything came together pretty well for a build of this type. ie nothing was touching that was not supposed to be :)
One thing that had not occurred to me, but is very obvious in hindsight, is the heel clearance issue I have from running the gear cable along the chainstay from the Sturmey Archer hub (my heel on the drive side just knicks the gear cable). As I want to keep the current cable routing, the answer may be to run a crankset with a wider tread. I will probably run a Shimano 600 EX crankset (they are a very slight low profile crank) a wider bottom bracket with the chainring on the inside of the spider. There are lots of crank options but I like the way the older Shimano 600 EX cranks look. For now I have clamped a small cable guide onto the chainstay (not in pics) to bring the cable towards the frame.
The bike will also have clipless and new tyres (the current ones are 28c from the parts bin) when it is in commuting mode