This frame is being sold by a friend of mine in Wales, and I've seen it in "the flesh" so to speak, when I was a guest. It is a beautiful job, to the extent that I took photos so that I could have one of my own projects enamelled in the same colours. I was even tempted to buy it, but I already have a 1938 Claud Butler (I love the pre-war Clauds!), and I'm reducing my collection, rather than expanding it...
Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:00:05 -0700
> From: gillies@ece.ubc.ca
> Subject: [CR] Ebay Outing : Stunning Claud Butler, 1939, 24"
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> http://ebay.com/
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> I think this pretty much personifies "How Restoration Ought to Be ...."
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> frame No. 92443, 1939.
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> Original Head Badge and Varnish-Fix Transfers, Stunning "Grass Green"
> paint, White Head Tube and Seat TUbe panels, stunning Double-Box
> Lining (Red and White), Stunning Lug Lining (Red), Stunning Seatstay
> Cap Swirls (3x Red and 2x White), plus beautiful swirling world
> champion bars at the seat panel green/white color transitions, 531
> Tubing, chromed Twin Plate Crown and 6" of chrome on the front forks.
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> What's not to love ??
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> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, uSA
> .~e