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Joining this thread very late, but I've just completed the rebuild of a 1954 Mercian, frame number 23254, model unknown. One small correction to an earlier comment: the oval stamp on the bottom bracket shell isn't RGP, it's RGF. Stands for Raccord Gargette Freres, a French maker of bottom...

Re: Thanks for that - it all helps. I have a 1974 Falcon catalogue in which some bikes have wraparound seat stays and some don't, some are 531 and some aren't (but on the ones which aren't 531, it doesn't tell us what the tubing is), and the model numbers seem to have been chosen by a bingo...

Re: Thanks for this - nice to have confirmation from someone who was around then. I'm not surprised at your comments re Falcon - I have a copy of Frank Clements' autobiography (Ernie Clements' younger brother) and if he is to be believed, Ernie C ran the entire Falcon business on the principle...

I'm trying to identify this frame - it has Carlton/Raleigh type wraparound seat stays, but it's not either of them. I think it may be a Falcon, and the date codes on the components it came with suggest about 1980 vintage. It's also light enough to be 531 tubing or similar: the bare frame is...