My friend Simon Alexander who commissioned the guitar from JB in 1970 illustrated (via a link) earlier in this thread said that going to a luthier like John was a cheaper alternative than buying a Martin and Gibson, which were expensive and hard to find in the UK in those days... but that the Bailey was possibly not as well made (which is why he eventually parted with it). I knew that guitar and thought it had a nice, distinctive voice, quite good for "English style" song accompaniment in a manner that (say) Fylde were able to progress - probably with more success - a few years later. I believe it cost him a hundred pounds at a time when an equivalent Martin would have been closer to two hundred...

The other Bailey I knew was a smaller body (perhaps Martin OO size), twelve fret neck, clear and responsive to play. It went out to Australia (Tasmania) at one stage but then back to UK again in the 1990s, whereabouts today I would not know...