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This head badge was used on an imported British lightweight 3 speed bicycle made in Birmingham, England. It was made by Tube Investments/British Cycle Corporation that owned Norman, Hercules, and Phillips among others. They eventually bought out Raleigh around 1960.

This started out so promising and shipping becomes a killer. That tread looks so much better than what I’ve been looking at from Kenda for my Schwinn S6 rims. Are shipping prices up for the holidays perhaps?

Great finds. That "brown" Raleigh paint with a little dish soap and a little rubbing compound to remove the top layer of oxidation will be amazing in the sunlight.

October ride on a 70s Raleigh Superbe and a 50s Humber Sports.

Under the bridge…

One year only, 1961 Raleigh Sports and Superbe were available in green or black frame with those white darts. It would have come with normal North Road type bars.

Here is the same chain guard on a Hercules made Shelby.

New to me. Cool find!

I love it! I mean even Raleigh thought it was special because it says so right on the top tube. Thank you for sharing it with us.

What a neat, little bike with beautiful lines. Great resto job!

Write up...not right up.

I'll be on the lookout for your right up. Lake Pepin is a long way from Mississippi. If I could only travel upstream on a riverboat...

There is a special feeling when i pull the VCC News & Views out of the mailbox. It is better than the Sears Wish Book...well, at least as good for my old self. And that bicycle is certainly on my bucket list.

Mine had a similar chain guard that I thought had been added. I removed it when I cleaned it up.

Very cool, Terry! Is it blue or is that just the lighting? It looks very complete and excellent shape for the age. Great find!

Very nice find. It is going to give you a very upright ride. Nice to see the center of your head badge hasn’t crumbled away like most of these. Here are a couple pics of my mid 30s with a K5 hub.

I don't have any experience taking a Brampton hub apart, but I have taken apart two of the Hercules hubs, both B Type, and 1 functions just like my SA AW hubs and one, will not. OK, it does function, but it is certainly not as smooth as my SAs. Nothing appears rough or out of spec, but it just...

The way I understand it, these pretty much mirror the Hercules A Type and B Type hubs. As stated, A Type 9 would have been 1949 and B Type 3 would have been 1953. Similarly, you had the Hercumatic and Brampton 3 speed triggers. By the 50s, most of the Birmingham brands had been consolidated...

Welcome and congrats. As previously stated, pics will help get the ball rolling.

Shuresto kickstand for the win.

Fantastic decals on that beauty! And the mint green pinstripes! And the RIN (Raleigh Industry Nottingham) chainwheel! Nice find! Much better than the later model Robin Hoods which were more budget oriented.

That headbadge and decals put it in the 50s and it would have been produced by BCC, the bicycle division under TI. If it was originally a 3 speed it would have had a Hercules B Type hub which was an SA clone. The headbadge looks pretty good. Enjoy the frame.

51 Dunelt 3 speed with Reynolds 531 frame.

Nice office addition!

She is a beautiful machine, Terry! Congrats! I have a ‘39 that I am thrilled to have but it has much more patina.

Here is the stem.

Hard to pass up for that price! Nice find.

Yeah, I’ve never seen that emblem. Wonder if Fleetwing maybe had an imported 3 speed in the 50s? Of course it could have been and privately branded hardware store also.

As stated earlier, this guard came on some English made bicycles for the American market in the fifties. More specifically made by Hercules which was under the BCC (British Cycling Corporation owned by Tube Investments). Here are pics of the same guard on my Shelby Traveler with an add pic.

Picked this Reynolds 531 framed Dunelt last weekend. It has a ‘51 SA AW hub.

I have Shelby Traveler badged Hercules with a Type B 5 hub. It has been repainted and has no decals unfortunately.

Love the Armstrong Birmingham headbadge!

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Hello fall!

Go Memphis! Beautiful bike. Here is mine, a 70-71 machine in downtown Memphis some years ago with my son.

As our British friends would say, she appears in fine fettle, Terry. Congratulations on the acquisition.

Sturmey Archer AW three speed has a distinct tick-tick-tick when coasting. It is very relaxing.

Sorry, it is a mid fifties. The hub had mud in the oil port and the original trigger shifter was toast. I rebuilt the hub and had a quadrant shifter laying around and my son insisted on using it instead of using a more modern trigger. Even though we zig-zagged the cable, I think it still...

Thanks, 3-speeder.

Nice job! I found a rusty, step-through at a bike co-op in their “sell as is” pile. They rehab and sell many bikes but anything requiring too much work is sold as is. Of course I was enamored with the duplex fork, but when I pulled the door open on the chain case and saw that beautiful chain...

When only the best will do...she is a fine example!

That is a gorgeous Kestrel. Good job!

I can only hope it comes out half as nice as yours.

All good questions. At this point, I have to find time to do some research. And I need to push some other projects to the finish line. But I assume it will need a complete tear down. Prayers accepted! Thanks for the heads up on the rear fork. I will check it out.

Just acquired this one this morning. Lots of work needed. But it is the first Moulton I have ever touched and could not pass it up. Quite the project.

Nice Tourist, JungleTerry. Here are my two, one from 1970 and one from mid-30's.

Nice Hercules. Here is mine badged as a Shelby Traveler.