Coventry Eagle
 

Saw a cool old Covetry Eagle at a local bike exchange the other day. Nice--about a 24-inch frame, it looked like, pretty nice lugwork (though I got to see it only briefly and in bad light) with a one-piece wrap-around seatstay. Paint very worn but seemed always to have been stored under cover--didn't see any rust. Headbadge was way cool: high-relief cast aluminum eagle facing straight ahead with his ol' beak thrust forward.
Not sure what components were original--looked like Sugino Maxy cranks, Suntour Vx rear, maybe a Compe V? in front, not sure about the hubs and rims. Tubing could be gaspipe, but the dropouts are forged, not stamped (didn't see a name on them), so I wouldn't be too surprised if it had some plain-gauge 531 in there somewhere. The area where the tubing sticker would have been is covered by one of those old bike registration stickers, from someplace in Virginia, I think.
Anybody know anything about these bikes? A quick google suggests that the company was somehow connected to Falcon, but I didn't find much detail.
JV

There's a lot of conflecting evidence out there. All I know for sure is that Conventry Eagle is British and goes back to the later 19th Century. Falcon and Conventry Eagle somehow merged. I've heard that Falcon was originally a Conventry Eagle brand and when the latter brand became dominant, the company changed it's name. I've also heard that Falcon bought Conventry Eagle and vice versa.