Just to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time to respond, you have given me what I asked and a whole lot more, it is good to see people renovating, restoring and restomodding these lovely old bikes which is pretty much what I do usually to old Raleigh which are fairly abundant this side of the pond. I am a retired toolmaker with a small lathe and milling machine and apart from repairing and cleaning up parts I like to make things fit which are not supposed to and replacing rusty old steel components with new in aluminium, stainless steel and occasionally titanium. To give you an idea my everyday transport through the winter has been this 1950 Raleigh Lenton which with the addition of some alloy components from the 1970s has become a very usable bike, I hope to find a Schwinn in need of some TLC and do the same sometime.
And how it arrived literally saved from the scrapheap at my local bike shop.
