Here's a slightly older Evans, from the mid-50s to the early 60s


The photomontage above is Hilary Stone's, but there are a bunch more detailed photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131757...h/26016887023/

As noted by Doug Fattic above, its construction and detailing are very nice indeed. It's not a real lightweight, like an early 50s R.O. Harrison that I also have, but it's no slouch for a Reynolds 531 bike. The badge says "Kennington Rd" which I assume is the original shop, and the serial number is "0207". I guess they thought they might build as many as ten thousand.

It has early Simplex 880 forged dropouts, the drive side rear of which broke where it entered the seat stay, and was brazed together. I've been searching for a replacement for years (actually have a Jeunet frame outfitted with them, but didn't care to wreck that to harvest a single dropout) -- and a few months ago ran across an eBay auction for an old frame for ~$40 or so, and persuaded the seller to chop off the dropouts and a few other bits and send to me for the auction price. Now I just have to get out of prison so I can have the Evans frame "corrected". I love the hand-painted Evans logotype running vertically on the down tube (have to view that in my Flickr album) and would like to repaint the frame, but duplicate that feature.