Any ideas on Mystery frame its a Gillot

[biggs682]

A friend of mine has just picked up this fillet brazed but certainly not a Claud Butler. Its unusual as the top tube and downtube are 1 1/8 in diameter it has a Hobbs lytaloy head set a Baylis Wiley bottom bracket and a Reynolds Hinduminum domed top seat post Milremo stem and Stratlite tour de france bars which all point to it being late forties early fifties 15447 is stamped on the steerer tube .

I now pictures are not the best,

 

[Tony Raynor]

Didn't Freddie Grubb do lugless frames as well?

 

[biggs682]

Didn't Freddie Grubb do lugless frames as well?

i think they did , i thought the larger dia tubing might help id but found nothing yet

 

[stevevw]

Do you have a decent picture of the seat cluster? Anything like this one on my Hobbs?

?

 

[stevevw]

Just noticed the frame number would count out a Hobbs maybe.

 

[biggs682]

Just noticed the frame number would count out a Hobbs maybe.

will ask for one

 

[biggs682]

right quick update the owner has sent me some more pics and these words @stevevw

" They might not be the best photos, this is the seat cluster. I did a little bit of rubbing down on the downtube and under the paint i uncovered the original paint and the remains of a transfer which looks like HobbsofBarbican or maybe its just wishful thinking "

 

[biggs682]

Well the searcj is over a little more rubbing down revealed a very stylised L which matches the images of the Gillott L' Atlantique exactly so now we know

see https://www.flickr.com/photos/makfreak/sets/72157650037312557/

 

[Senior Ryder]

Great bit of detective work!

Cheers,

 

[biggs682]

Great bit of detective work!

Cheers,

@Senior Ryder yeah he was lucky as how many times have we all looked for hints and clues and found zilch

 

[mikeymustard]

What a find!

 

[biggs682]

What a find!

yeah it was a good one for sure , he has to decide what to do now