[CR]Crump's challenge: eBay '52 New Allrounder

I am pleased to have won John's DVD of the Spinning Wheels film. I had it on video, which I lent to a local elderly cyclist. Unfortunately he died suddenly before I got it back, and I didn't like to bother the grieving family for it. The first reference I found to Spinning Wheels was simply those 2 words in the diary of Arthur Staff, the former owner of my first restoration, a 51 Hetchins. I spent some time wondering what he would have been doing that day spinning wheels, and it wasn't until some weeks later that a contemporary of Arthur's told me that it was shown at a local cinema that day.

Before going on to say what my understanding is of the CB lugs around the 1950 period, I must say that bi-lamination was a type of construction, not a style of lug. Other than that, the subject caused enough grief last time it was aired, and I am not going down that road again.

I believe Claud had developed his ideas of bi-lam construction using what he called the improved version of the lugs originally used on the Avant Courier and Olympic Sprint models, and that can be seen on my Tour Anglais with its half lugs at http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/peter_brown/Sport+Anglais/ . In 1949 the Allrounder was a simple lugless frame. I don't have a copy of the 1950 catalogue, but by 1951 the Allrounder was described as the New Allrounder, and had the lugs previously used on the AC and OS. They in turn became the Super Avant Courier and the Championnat d'Olympique models with the new long cutaway spearpoints

Peter Brown, Lincolnshire, England