In article Dale Brown Wrote :
> I am betting it's a Dawes....
I think Dale is probably pulling your leg ?? In the Carlton factory in the early 1960's you couldn't SPIT without hitting a chromed bike - they were everywhere. I would venture a guess that more Carltons have been chromed (many for the so-called polychromatic paint job) than all other bikes combined.
Your bike has the telltale "V" centerpull cable stop on the rear. My Raleigh/Carlton competition (1967/8 i cannot remember) has the same cable stop. This stop is a variant of the semicircular stop that takes a normal sidepull cable stop and normal sidepull barrel adjuster - much more practical than the raleigh stops (which require cannibalizing a simplex prestige shift lever if you lose the barrel adjuster ...)
The window cutouts on the top head lug are a puzzler but in other cases the lugs look a lot like Carlton lugs from the 1950's and 1960's:
http://www.mortij.demon.co.uk/
Good luck !!
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA