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Assuming there are no signs that the thread is damaged on the tight side - probabaly best to put the wheel back into the fork and tighten the opposite free side nut tightly against the fork. Use another lock nut behind it provided you have one with the correct thread. Then after soaking the tight side use a socket drive on the tight side - not open spanner.

VVV Nice HOLDSWORTH - Colin Lewis would be proud

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RIP - WITCOMB, Tanners Hill, Deptford Broadway, **London SE8 4PJ

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In view of demise of Witcomb brand, any of their Frames will now be extremely collectable. This was a bargain at £800. (I'd put the frame alone at a grand)

I now consider myself extremely lucky to have had my Witcomb frame fully restored by Barry at the WITCOMB shop in Deptford a couple of years ago. It is superb - he did a fantastic job and I shall treasure it even more now. I remember going to collect it at the shop - meeting and chatting to Barry and his father Ernie. Barry was able to look the frame number up in old workshop log book of all frames made by the firm. He was able to tell me it was a Giro d'italia model and was made in 1967 .
It is indeed a sad story that the business has closed - for what ever reason. And it would be good if somebody could try to resurrect the name again and build good steel Witcomb frames for another 50 years.