Regarding Crump's challenge: '52 New Allrounder at Ebay #230202634594
In Claud Butler's 1952 catalogue, the New Allrounder model was second from the bottom of the price range, with the Super Velo model being the bottom. As such, the New Allrounder was an economy or starter model and unlikely to have been ordered at extra expense with chroming. The New Allrounder cost 10.17.6 pounds in the 1952 catalogue. A catalogue "alternative" to chrome the frame and fork cost 4.10.3 pounds in the 1951 catalogue (not listed as available in the 1952 catalogue). That level of combined price for a chromed New Allrounder put one near the top of the Claud Butler models. At that price, one could purchase the Avant Coureur Special, which has butted tubing throughout the frame, whereas the New Allrounder had straight gauge Reynolds or A&P tubing in its frame tubes only.
Weinmann brakes were available at that time, and listed in the 1952 Holdsworth Aids to Cycling catalogue. However the Weinmann levers on this bike have a quick release style which wasn't available at the time on Weinmann levers.
Peter
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Peter Brueggeman
La Jolla California USA
pbrueggeman(AT)ucsd.edu