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Cascamite typical cabinet makers glue. Something similar may well have been used, but you are not re laminating, just fill the cracks with something you can rub down. Keith

Probably Maple wood. I suggest using a 2 part hard setting adhesive, just to fill the gaps. I used a pair for daily riding in 1950 and they were indestructible, frequently in the rain.

Re: Raleigh Carlton, with Raleigh head and bottom bracket 26 threads per inch. Raleigh got the production up to 50,000 a year. Well made low end frame which had to conform to legal requirements of the time, so small frames had to be built with long top tubes. Keith

Not a Claud Butler. On the top of the handlebar stem there is a hexagon bolt head. Undo 3 or 4 turns, then hit it downwards. This is the expander bolt, and how to release it. The handlebar stem will probably still be stuck, but you are now in with a chance. Keith

Mechanically stamped frame number usually suggests mass produced possibly Japanese. Keith

My guess is early post war, with cast lugs. Hope you have the rest of it, that is forks and headclip. The number could refer tp 1950, but it would be out of date by then. Keith

Further to the blue clubman above, it would have had silver cables, and rubber handlebar grips. Also it looks like 27 inch wheels, if so totally wrong for 1949/50. Keith

Re: That blue clubman has wrong top tube cable clips, wrong (GB) handlebar stem. And the paint is about 10 times thicker than original. I think the chainset was made by Nicklin, with a special raleigh detachable chainring, not Williams. Peter Kohler is good on catalogue details. Keith.

From what I can see the paint looks original. The chainwheel is not. From memory I think these had a detachable chainring on forged cranks. Keith

One slight oddity, we usually see these Carltons with Raleigh bottom bracket and octagonal head set 26 TPI. Here we have the RH bracket cup with a flange, so not Raleigh. The 7 figure number automatically stamped on the bottom bracket makes me think of perhaps a large far eastern maker. The...

This bike has no connection with the city of Bristol UK. Sturmey Archer made 36 hole hubs in the 1960s, but also made them in Switzerland. British bikes for the home market were not made with friction dyno lighting, extra long handlebar stems, and fancy chain guards. But the chrome looks...

Hello Bartosz Not a Raleigh make, not even British. Some British components, the hub gear date seems too early. Is it possibly Dutch? Keith

The fork column may not be long enough. "Stack height" and "Steerer" are tooAmerican for me. Keith

Its clearly from before Norman were badged raleigh. But the D to round fork blades look a bit low rent. Probably had a "Bendylux" before GS gear. Is it possibly a Phillips frame? iIt appears to have a 24 TPI bottom bracket and headset. Sturmey Archer was never an option for me, saw too many in...

If you bear in mind I ceased repairing shattered SA gears in the mid 50s, from memory low gear is -33%, has 2 trains of epicyclics, and estimating the chainring at 38 and rear cog 26 that would be around 27 inch gear as we quoted gear ratios then. I think the problems started with teeth breaking...

One good shove on the pedals in the lowest gear should explode the Sturmey archer. Keith

If you have the bottom bracket apart you may be able to feel if the 2 main tubes have a seam weld. Also Raleigh drilled and pinned the lugs before brazing, not sure when this finished. So you might have the pins through the bracket shell. I thought the forks looked later. Keith

Raleigh rear ends were 5/16 inch, these have been filed out to perhaps 3/8. Raleigh bottom bracket shell was around 70mm, the RH cup screws inside the shell, other British makes used a flanged cup in a 68mm shell. I can see the Raleigh lock ring with 4 slots. Keith

Re: Quite a lot of Raleigh in view. The bottom bracket shell looks like Raleigh, and probably 26 tpi. Made at a time when TI were using up any parts from the many companies they took over. It was a general collapse of the traditional cycle manufacturers, due to hopeless attempts at motorising...

Re: Parts machined a bit off. Back in the 50s Regina were particularly variable. The hub axle would only affect this if the axle was rotating. Keith