Originally Posted by
merziac
As always, fascinating insights, thank you.
Again, seems odd to me no evidence of any witness marks of such a fitment.
Even with no hands on experience, they would have had to been very securely fastened, would surely leave a mark that would require refinish to cover and could certainly be the case here.
As far as my dad can remember this was never built up. He thinks there was something rare about it and my grandad was always waiting for parts.
Its very similar to this.
https://www.63velo.com/wf-holdsworth...bum/4594541996
If that's the case I think I was a Claud butler and I've been reading reading the frame marks upside down OLI8OI would be 108170. I think that would me it was built in August of the first year of a decade and was number 170.
And the frame an forks being marked 7541 would date it to a CB from 1961
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