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🤔 the wedgebolt in residence on the non-drive side arm exhibits a distinctly caveman look it may be that fitment of a new matched pair of them may resolve symptom since bearing cup marked BSC thread wedgebolt diameter is likely to be 9.5mm -----

----- deformation likely to be either a) spider of drive side crank arm or b) bottom bracket spindle test demount drive side crank arm and hold tip of screwdriver (for example) up to end of spindle as you slowly rotate spindle using non-drive crank arm if spindle does not vary/wobble then...

----- forgot to mention above... in case you have any interest in history of the marque there is some information here - http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/Transport/bicycles/Viking.htm -----

----- Cobra is one of the marques belonging to Eugenio Rampinelli also the creator of the REG and ROTO product lines -----

----- Welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing your Claud Butler! ;) readers could likely give more and better assistance with some images of the whole machine and/or larger sections thereof fork crown appears Vagner model DP or DP+ (FR) chainset appears it may be a model of OFMEGA...

----- if you are able to post additional images readers should be able to give further details regarding this machine appears there may be a "MADE IN ITALY" transfer at the base of the seat tube; chainset and headset also appear they may be Italian products from the firm of OFMEGA the...

----- the combination of the Agrati bulge-formed head (pattern "AM") with an aluminum fork crown cap and plate style bridge generally suggests a German origin for the machine gear ensemble is mixed kitting so something has been replaced appears an honest and decent product; see no reason not...

----- earlier Kermesse model frames were constructed with the distinctive "aerfoil" seat stay bridge -----

Huret began date marking their products in 1978 with a four digit numerical mark here is an example - this indicates the item produced during the twenty-eighth week of the year nineteen eighty-four so if the cycle's three Huret components lack this marking you know it was constructed no...

----- OFMEGA is not an acronym for Officine Meccaniche Giostra that is an incorrect suggestion I gave to Joel many years ago, back at the commencement of the present millennium have subsequently learned it to be an acronym for the firm Officina Meccanica Galvanotecnica Giostra's year of...

----- this is a Dutch marque so not a good fit in the thread ;) -----

----- cycle's Huret Challenger rear gear mech launched 1974 so if taken to be original it provides one date bracketing marker suspect wheels not original machine a pretty low end model the investment in parts/consumables to make a refurbishment could easily put it under water with respect...

----- thanks to all for the replies yet seeking information on the road ensemble... -----

----- for a short period in the years immediately following the second world war the component manufacturers Altenburger, GB and Magistroni (Officine Mecchaniche Giostra) joined forces to offer a road ensemble do not know specific start/stop years for this effort GB, for example, was the U.K...

----- hast thee considered the possibility that her head be bowed because she be looking through the viewfinder of a camera? -----

----- wrt dating - the machine's three Sachs-Huret components are marked with a date notation of four numerals the first two numerals indicate the week of the year and the second two indicate the year as in this example - the backside of the crankarms of the cycle's Sakae Ringyo chainset...

---- Malaguti cycle constructed with Malguti lugs - works and team, Bologna 1930's. - lugset, catalogue image of 1949 - -----

----- examples of earlier Falck transfers - ^ 1963 ^ 1970's era --- Falck Italy's largest steel producer by far Italian celebrity gossip publications were for years full of articles about the Falck family heirs & heiresses getting caught with their knickers down -----

----- whoever performed the present respray did not bother to remove the head cups appears they wished to reproduce the Holdsworthy team orange colour but were unable to locate the correct paint to do it so they ended up with this see nothing to suggest a Holdsworthy product the dropouts...

----- for that date one would expect a seventy-four mm shell Campag produced spindles for them -----