Thanks Wahoonc.

Seems the tubes are 28". I'll email them in due course about 27s. Perhaps the originals were 28s? I'll need to do more research. Still no leads on who made it or when, at this stage. There is a Bentleigh Cycle Shop here in Victoria Aus. I've emailed them but no reply.

28c: I remember one of my school mates, who was from a bike racing family in the '60s used something similar to this for 'tooling around'. It had alloy rims by then, and no mudguards (fenders) as I recall, the other kids used to laugh 'cause he couldn't ride on gravel roads. It was essentially a training bike, he and his 2 brothers and father rode the 100 mile round trip to Gosford almost daily on them. The whole family raced Velodrome and Road. Unfortunately I wasn't interested enough at the time to pay attention to the bikes.

Couple of other 'strange' things: Very long pedals and no toe clips on a fixed wheel racer with no brakes? Death defying!! Oh, and I've been told that it's what was referred to as an 18 pounder. Very lightweight for the era apparently.

Cheers.