MAYBE A GILLOTT?

I picked up this bike the other

week on Trade Me for a very cheap price, 

mainly because I had spotted that it had a Cinelli

steel stem with badge, and although the photo

in the add was pretty poor, I was also sure the frame
 had Nervex pro lugs, so what the hell....

 The Cinelli stem, which sparked my interest.

The bike (Oryx) as delivered.

So the bike arrives today, the  first thing I noticed is

that it has a Oryx head badge, and decals, which 

looked fairly original.

I have seen a couple of Oryx bikes around, but nothing

of note, apart from one David Benson has on his flicker,

although this was a later one, and the only nice one

I could find. 

So I put it on the work stand, and notice a Campagnolo

Grand Sport r/d, Benelux f/d, Zeus shifters, GB brakes...

On closer inspection I also noticed that there were two other

holes above and below the Oryx head badge, the plot thickens.

I had thought, when I was originally buying it,

that it might had been a Bertin C37. The colour and 

Nervex lugs were about right, but I could tell straight away

that this wasn't one of theirs, as the seat stay taper is shorter

on all the Bertin frames I have seen (a few), and as it turned out

the badge holes are different, (some early Bertins 

had a nice headbadge), and the frame numbers were wrong.

Nice spear point seat stays.

The Oryx badge removed, notice the two holes

on the centre line.

The next builder that came to mind was Gillott.

The build finish was at a glance,certainly of the caliber

one would expect from them, I have a Gillott track bike, so

I took the calipers out and measured the badge holes, and 

to my happy surprise found a match.

Also the frame numbers (61551)on The B/B  match the 

Gillott style.

This would make the frame build 1961, which matches

very well with the lug set, and components.

I will have to do a little more research to confirm, 

here's hoping......