Top tube guides, under BB cable guides but nutted brakes sort of puts in early 70's.
Glue on Raleigh badge and a Raleigh seat bolt can de additions.
Don't recognise it as a UK Raleigh but could be wrong. Maybe an export, overseas made or not a Raleigh
Blimey...Eric Suffill built my wheels back in the day (70's) not heard his name for years on end ! I rode for Hull Thursday and quite a few of us had our wheels built there.
Eric had every excuse under the sun for wheels not being ready, plus hated doing radial spokes lol
It's certainly a TT special but with an earlier CSM bb shell with the points at the side of the chainstay so Metric tubing. Wonder what the Reynolds decal says
My Holdsworth Classic TT was meant for single chainring but came out of the factory with braze ons for two.
Edit I'm in two minds...
You could well be right, I'm 65 this year so my memory of the time isn't cast iron.
Probably mistaking it with seeing the Carlton Corsair /Pro Am duo at the Harrogate Bike Show '78 lol
Nice :). Re the frame number N is for Nottingham, L is for August and the 3 is for 1983.
Would likely be under the seat for that year. Trying to remember when I first saw one, 1978 maybe?
Sure is a nice frame. Back then the "fag paper" clearance between the wheels and the frame was very fashionable, as was making the frame very "upright" with short top tube.
Made for a very lively ride, so much so the Pro riders kicked back and their longer distance road frames became a little...
Looks like a Roy Thame short wheelbase Road bike from the 70's. They liked the odd "cloverleaf" cutout and sometimes copied the Holdsworth wrap round.
Could be a Holdsworth that someone had modified but at that time they had the Classic on their books.
The forks however have a very Mercian...