Originally Posted by
photogravity
The bike looks to be in pretty good condition and, at least from what I can see of the dropouts is a mid- to late-50's bike. It's definitely a made in Birmingham model. What's more intriguing to me are the "cutaway" lugs instead of the oval windowed lugs that were used on them at that time. Can you please provide:
1) a picture of the headbadge,
2) a picture of the seattube graphics,
3) closeup pictures of the rear dropouts,
4) a picture of the headtube lugs and
5) let us know or take a picture of the stamping on the hub. If the hub is not a Sturmey Archer, it should be a Hercules B Type x where x is a digit.
I'm definitely intrigued with this bike.
The headbadge is nice. The seattube graphics have been damaged quite a bit. I meant to look at the hub before I left it but didn't. I will take a few more pics when I get it back. I'm going to call them today and tell them to go with blackwall tires.