Sometime prior to 1973 Frank.
Only know that as I was discussing front end wobbles with a chap at Mallory a couple of years ago - his '73 suffered the same way as my '76.
But, exactly when they came in, I'm afraid not.

Cheers,

Graham (G4FUJ)

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