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So, I went to look at a few wheels, and came home with a few frames.
The bsa, Raleigh, and Peugeot are easy enough to identify, but, what years/ era? And what are the other two? These are all a little out of my normal zones.
Any help is appreciated!

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I also got way more rims then I know what to do with that ol need some help identifying. Pile of 28s that aren’t stuff I’m familiar with. Different ‘drop center’ style 26... I said yes to the whole lot because there was a few s-2 rims and a blue araya in there...:giggle:
 
There are some cool lugs on those frames...I would have been hard pressed to walk away. I don't know anything about them, either...except they're cool!
Thanks man. Yea, I thought they were cool too. The Peugeot has some braze ons that are really interesting that I've never seen before, and I dig the pump mount behind the seat tube on the white bike. I'm thinking most of this came from Europe based in some of the rest of the stuff I got with it. Wheels marked 'german' with iso numbers that I don't know off the top of my head, etc.

It was a 'take all or take none' deal, so...
 
The French Peugeot looks a lot like this 1936 Polymultiplée...

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It would be an incredible find, if you have all the parts.

That "clamp-able" bottom bracket is a pretty odd bird, but I can't provide any insight to its maker. Good luck stopping the BSA with those vintage rod brakes. The wheels that go with it (if they're among your stash) will have a sort of vee-shaped profile that matches the pads...quite unlike a modern rim brake surface.
 
The French Peugeot looks a lot like this 1936 Polymultiplée...

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It would be an incredible find, if you have all the parts.

That "clamp-able" bottom bracket is a pretty odd bird, but I can't provide any insight to its maker. Good luck stopping the BSA with those vintage rod brakes. The wheels that go with it (if they're among your stash) will have a sort of vee-shaped profile that matches the pads...quite unlike a modern rim brake surface.

WOW. That looks pretty close! Thank you!
I remember seeing a wanted post for a frame with a clampable bb on another site, but that was awhile ago, and didn't give a maker. Pretty interesting to me tho, never seen one.
 
The silver frame has chain-guard mounts so I'd say it's a "city bike" of some sort.
I agree. It has a few other interesting braze ons. I think it was an english three speed or variation of that style. I saw a bike a bit ago that had an internal 3, with an external 2, and a strange (to me) derailleur set up. I think it had similar braze ons..
 
That silver frame might make a nice fixie for the right person. I appears to be constructed with Nervex #100 lugs and likely once had a clamp-on derailleur affixed at the shiny spot on the drive-side chainstay. Shifter would have been strapped to the top tube, again, at the bright spot.

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I bet that frame would respond very nicely to a bath in Evaporust. The folks at The CABE might be able to provide the identity.
 
That silver frame might make a nice fixie for the right person. I appears to be constructed with Nervex #100 lugs and likely once had a clamp-on derailleur affixed at the shiny spot on the drive-side chainstay. Shifter would have been strapped to the top tube, again, at the bright spot.

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I bet that frame would respond very nicely to a bath in Evaporust. The folks at The CABE might be able to provide the identity.
Thanks again @RustySprockets ! That lug sheet is sweet. I agree that fprcthe right person it’d be a cool build. I think that frame and the Raleigh would probably build up the ‘easiest’. I don’t a to keep any of them, so I doubt I’ll build any of them up. I do have them up on the cabe with the same questions. Not many answers yet
I've looked a little into the BSA and I believe it to be '36-'48 or so.
 
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I have a wishbone truss fork like the black checked Raleigh, but did not think it was foreign. Looks most like some longer Excelsior truss forks, but to fit a 3-1/2" head tube; (not quite the same arch truss as Iver Johnson, Great Western, Davis, or Westfield). The fork I have is 1"-24tpi; I also have a newer Raleigh fork that is 26-tpi; (I acquired that one just for the 26-tpi headset).
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So, do you think the fork in pictures 10-11-12 are original to the English bike?
I plan to use mine on an unknown double-bar or twin-truss frame, (matching in a way).
 
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I have a wishbone truss fork like the black checked Raleigh, but did not think it was foreign. Looks most like some longer Excelsior truss forks, but to fit a 3-1/2" head tube; (not quite the same arch truss as Iver Johnson, Great Western, Davis, or Westfield). The fork I have is 1"-24tpi; I also have a newer Raleigh fork that is 26-tpi; (I acquired that one just for the 26-tpi headset).
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So, do you think the fork in pictures 10-11-12 are original to the English bike?
I plan to use mine on an unknown double-bar or twin-truss frame, (matching in a way).
I don't think that the fork goes with the raleigh either. I was thinking it possibly goes to a motor bike style frame. The steerer on it is too short for even the frame its sitting in.
 

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