Another Find - 1939 Raleigh Sports Tourist

 Here's a local Facebook Market find - a Raleigh Sports Tourist. I spotted this bike for sale and decided to buy it, given it is an older Raleigh model, especially for the US market. It has many of the old-style features: hook spanner headset, quadrant shifter, chain case, old pattern fenders, old-style lamp bracket, and an un-dated "Patent Applied For" Sturmey Archer AW rear hub.

The frame is a nice, 23 inches on top of 26 inch wheels. Rims are 26 x 1 3/8 Dunlop endrick type. Although not photographed, I do have the black pump that came with the bike, which I believe is original. 

 

Parts missing: pie plate for the chain case, rear elbow for the chain case, rear sliders for the chain case. 

 

The saddle is a 1940s-50s era horsehair Lycett mattress type (actually might go with the bike OK). 

 

Brake cables look newer rubber type (the old, pre-war ones were a cloth-covered cable). 

Paint is worn but original. The original graphics on the bike are worn, though the seat tube decal is still mostly there. Fender and chain case decals are pretty much worn off. 

 

Overall, I'm happy with this. It will make a nice companion to my 1939/40 Raleigh Model 35.