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----- dating note - if one takes the machine's Sachs-Huret bits to be original to it they should provide a specific date beginning in 1978 fittings received a four digit date marking where the first two digits indicate the week of the year and the second two the year as in this example -...

----- lovely job and most thoughtful fittings selection! 😍 a brave project to take on the replication of a chromovelato finish, also sometimes referred to as chrome-o-luxe headset is Thomas D. Cross & Sons Limited model "S" - like earlier posters am much impressed you got the Benelux to...

----- plate style bridges suggest a base level model this seat stay treatment where the stay top fits into a socket on the seat lug is seen only on lower models from the Rokycany factory -----

the frameset's head tube angle may or may not be seventy two degree depending upon frame geometry variables the marking on the head lug indicates the angle between the socket for the head tube and the socket for the downtube -----

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----- closeup of the Peugeot steering lock mech - -----

----- welcome to the forum! 😃 there is a tremendous amount of Claud Butler and Holdsworth information archived at this enthusiast created web site - https://nkilgariff.com from the serial shown on the frame a date of 1980 is indicated - exactly as you write 😉...

----- frame design sometimes referred to as "X-bike" and also as "priest bike" - designed so that priest wearing cassock could ride without fouling his garment... -----

----- "...loved the wonderful pastries..." -----

----- if frame of British origin one possible maker might be the Coventry Eagle/Falcon entity during the period of Mr. Ernest Clements residence the firm employed a fair amount of Agrati bits in its frame construction there is also the possibility it may be of Italian origin one simple check...

----- the frame's two plate style bridges betray it as a bottom ender something or other; quite possible they may both be Agrati items; the Pletscher plate style bridges are marked with the Pletshcer name and the Agrati ones usually not marked fork crown is Agrati pattern Nr. 005.8028 which is...

----- whilst Modolo be both the family name and the company name when one gets back far eno' the products were sold as OMMAS (no relation to OMAS) brand - this manufacturer catalogue page of 1983 illustrates the then current range of caliper brake models - -----

----- here are two images of an original finish Favorit F12 of 1979: --- owned a new 1973 model year example of your cycle it was finished in a chartreuse flambouyant somewhat similar to "Legnano green" and fitted with all Favorit/ESKA bits dropouts have a distinctive pebble grain surface...

----- if t'were an MCB product shell would be metric/"french" thread rather than BSC -----

----- the forum has a sub-forum for "Road Bikes For Sale" here - https://www.retrobike.co.uk/forums/road-for-sale-complete-bikes.47/ is your Special one of the cream coloured ones with black trim? -----