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If it is a Carlton the frame number is usually stamped on the rear dropout and has a prefix letter.

Frame looks to be built with Bocama Pro lugs. Campag short dropouts began to appear around the late 1970s. Cable guides on top tube are from around the same time and the Campag pattern cable guide on the top of bottom bracket shell would fit the late 1970s/early 1980s. The 26.6mm seat tube...

Leader Cycles, Croydon built by Ted Woodhall. Ted built frames for the trade as well as under his own name and built the frames used by the Hercules Independent team both pre and post war.

Don't believe it is a F. Pratt frame. He would have put his own transfers back on it, rather than renovated by... Pratt's was quite a well known shop and it would fair to assume your frame was a decent lightweight to have been refinished. The top eyes on the seat stays and the rear dropout...

Frederick Pratt was Claud Butler's brother in law and advocate of the 'Jack Knife' design of frame. The top eyes and rear dropouts date the frame to the late 1940s or early 1950s.

I can confirm that any of the continental made pro frames I have handled, did not have any frame numbers. Some of the 1960s TDF Lejeune frames were actually quite crudely finished by UK standards but importantly rode very well. The paint, in all cases I have seen, was never laquered. The...