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Those are brilliant photo's Will, this is getting quite bizarre! I assume these are photo's of him on his Fred Russell?
I can see your Grandpa is obviously a tall guy in the photo, just the right height for a 24" frame! I can plainly see a Major Taylor stem and what look like the same shape bars. No rear caliper and fixed gear. Its very hard to tell on the photo but the left side rear drop out looks like a horizontal drop out and not a track drop out as you would expect to find. Its in the back of my mind that we could be setting up a big disappointment here, but it is a very strange set of coincidences!
Because there are no records of frame numbers the date of 1955 came from the Williams crank. The left crank is 1955 and the drive side is 1958. I assumed the sprocket had worn and been replaced leaving the original left crank. If this was your Grandpa's bike I would guess the amount of cycling would mean the cranks could be regularly changed, and the bike could be much earlier.
If the article is from 1941 do you have any idea when he bought his bike or any other photos?