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@cino
So maybe some more explaining . What I really wanted to do was to buy and restore an original path racer , but there rare and increasingly expensive ( £500 ++) , and like a lot of things that are rare and valuable , there faked . Enter the Humber , bought for £50 , mainly because the sturmey archer gears had lunched themselves ,and in all honesty , I almost certainly saved it from the skip/Thames .
Top picture is a 1903 Rover path racer , underneath is the Humber . As you can see , the frame construction and geometry are quiet close , the Rover has slightly higher bottom bracket and the wheel clearances are a bit closer under the fork crown and rear brake bridge .
The steering lock is now gone , I wasn't too precious about it , they seem to have been an option on Humber's , some have them , some don't . Anyway I didn't have a key for it , and if I had I wouldn't have used it . It's all metal under the paint , just very shiny metal , so I've toned it down a bit by painted the lugs satin black .