Originally Posted by
daka
Although my Dad crossed the Alps on a three-speed, I'm not anxious to try that.
Originally Posted by
daka
But the photo and the personal details in my post are part of my story that I have been meaning to share here for a while and it seemed as good an opportunity as any other to post it. I'd also like some help from the collective wisdom here to learn a little more about my father's bike - I know that it had a very small "Reynolds 531" sticker on the seat tube, that it was a kind of olive green color and I suspect it had 26 x 1 1/4 (EA 1) tires since my brother, who rode it later, complained about how hard it was to find tires for it. Virtually all of the componentry was chrome plated steel (bars, stem, seat post, brakes, etc.)
e
...with the profile in that photo, your description of the color, the early Reynolds sticker, the three speed hub, and the stated time period, I would guess maybe one of the Lenton's from that time. Something similar was sold as a Rudge, but I can't see enough of the details in that photo to tell much more.
Read the Lenton History here, which has a lot of pictures you can use for comparison. The first production models were from 1948, which is not too long after WW2 ended.
