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- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I have been concentrating on other things to take things in! Yesterday I looked at a 1952 Holdsworth catalogue. Reading the description it is very similar to my bike with the design of lugs, it also states that it was only a frame only option so the customers would fit whatever they had or liked to it. So trying to date the frame by using the parts fitted is out. If my frame is from 1951/52 then it would have already have been an old frame by the time that the previous owner bought it. I make it 11 years old by the time he was 16.
So far I haven't spotted a frame number. I'll have another look later but for now I will assume that it is a 1952 model which was built as a 10 speed. The bracket for mounting the front mech is brazed onto the seat tube.
I was lucky yesterday that the seat post came out. It might be that it was because the previous owner worked for Rolls Royce and knew about those sorts of things. The bike looks to have been cared for in the past and has had a couple of resprays in a similar colour. I assume that the head badge is a replacement as according to the Holdsworth site the badge with the crown was only in use after the Tornado stopped being made in 1953.
So far I haven't spotted a frame number. I'll have another look later but for now I will assume that it is a 1952 model which was built as a 10 speed. The bracket for mounting the front mech is brazed onto the seat tube.
I was lucky yesterday that the seat post came out. It might be that it was because the previous owner worked for Rolls Royce and knew about those sorts of things. The bike looks to have been cared for in the past and has had a couple of resprays in a similar colour. I assume that the head badge is a replacement as according to the Holdsworth site the badge with the crown was only in use after the Tornado stopped being made in 1953.
