I have been trying to check out further the Peugeot *Serie Tourisme *that is tempting Jon Crate.
My 1954 Peugeot catalogue shows a very similar but not identical model called the PL40. This is equipped with Rigida steel 650B rims on Peugeot hubs, Simplex Rigidex 3sp rear mech, aluminium alloy grooved guards, flat W shape chrome bars on AVA stem, alloy chain guard etc ciomplte with dynamo, rear carrier and metal tool boxes attached, Brakes are JEAY-type centre pulls,The bike was available in a cjhoice of colurs including IVOIRE..which is what I think Jon's frame is. Lugs are painted in contrasting colour.
The same frame but with a different finish is used for the the PL50 * Randonneur * model, but this has a double chainset using a Simplex Tour-de France lever front mech. Bars are Randonneur with centrally placed guidonnet type levers. The saddle is more sporting and less utilitarian. A 4sp block is used and wheels are 700c. Both bframes have the Peugeot integral steering lock placed behind the lower head-lug
However I think that the Ebay frame is probably older than than these 1954 ones. it does not have the steering lock, but it is equipped with a boss brazed behind the seat tube just above the chainset. These bosses on this type of frame were generally intended to have the lever front mech bolted onto them. Sometimes Simplex front mechs were used sometimes Huret. Generally however the front mechs would incorporate a very long cage than functioned as a chain guard as well as a changer ( if my memory still serves me well)
I think that the Ebay frame was probably the basis of a randonneur bike rather than a Tourisme model. If it is earlier than 1954 it probably would have had 650B wheels.
The *INOXYDABLE* transfer refers to the fact that the frame had been treated to a rustproofing process similar, I suppose, to the Jenolite process used in the UK in the 50s. Stainless steel in France is called INOX...simply because it does not rust (normally).
In the 1954 catalogue there is a range of bikes called *Serie INOX LUXE* indicating bikes of a higher standard..but none of the frames such as the PLX40 have the same two-tone finish with lugs picked out. A final detail..on the Ebay frame the pump pegs are on the down-tube and on the 1954 frame they are brazed behind the seat-tube.
I might be able to check further...
Norris Lockley
on a very drab and very rainy day in Settle UK