F.C. Parkes Lightweight ‘48/‘49?

[TheDocmeister]

I’ve just picked this up from the local Gumtree. No history with it, I picked it up from the father of the owner and he knew very little about it.
It’s a bit grimy, but that seems to have been its saving! Genuinely can’t find anything really wrong with it that a bit of cleaning won’t sort out. At a push, it’s missing one Huret wing nut on the front wheel…

 

[TheDocmeister]

Here’s another few shots of it (still on the bike rack until I can find somewhere to stash it out of sight…)