The aim of this book is simple yet ambitious: to produce, in a single volume, a detailed and complete history of the Raleigh cycle company of Nottingham, from its founding to the present. It covers not only bicycles but also motorcycles, cars, vans, munitions, motorcycle engines, and bicycle and motorcycle gears. The story of Raleigh is fascinating in many different respects - the people, the products, the production methods, and more. The personalities involved were many and various, ranging from the founder's ambition to make the best bicycles money could buy to anonymous "suits" almost running the company into the ground from fancy offices in New York. But Raleigh also deeply touched the lives of tens of thousands of other people who depended on it, directly or indirectly, particularly in and around the city of Nottingham.
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Tony Hadland is a specialist cycling writer who trained as an architect at Oxford Brookes University and worked as a property surveyor in Reading. He lives near Oxford.
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A good factual and well constructed historical account of life at Raleigh. I worked there in the late 1960's and can recognise most of the descriptions documented for that era. If anything, it could perhaps do with a few more illustrations. Well done Tony Hadland and thanks for all the effort and hard work that you put into this book.
By malcolm hart
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This is an excellent, very comprehensive study of the Raleigh Company, covering its comercial and technical history from the beginning to the present day. I particularly liked the chronological layout of the book, and I also very much liked the way in which the author wove in a variety of comments from contemporary employees of the Company. For anyone interested in the development of the British bicycle industry, its products, people and manufacturing methods, this is, in my opinion, the definitive publication.
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A present for my son at Christmas. He is always reading it . A lot of info in it for him to absorb.
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Raleigh Past and Presence
A fascinating book about the up's and down's of trying to make a profit from manufactoring bicycles. Read more
Published 4 months ago by AndyF
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Raleigh: Past and Presence of an Iconic Bicycle Brand
Raleigh: Past and Presence of an Iconic Bicycle Brand
Was give this book as a Christmas present OK I opened it early , please don't tell. Could not put it down. Read more
Was give this book as a Christmas present OK I opened it early , please don't tell. Could not put it down. Read more
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Best Moment for Raleigh bicycles
I previously bought other books by author Tony Hadland. Always very precise, well-informed, reliable information. Read more
Published 5 months ago by O R BEAUJON
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Boring and tedious.
Typical Tony Hadland! Boring in the extreme. Reads like a catalogue and has no romance. This should have been well received but it is sadly a dense solid boring resume. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. J. Shackford
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Raleigh: Past and Presence of an Iconic Bicycle Brand
I had little knowledge of the role that Raleigh played in the industrial past of England and world wide before reading this book. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Robert
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best cycle-company history thus far
Interest in bicycle history has grown considerably in recent years, and manufacturer monographs have now appeared in Italy, Austria, France, Germany and the US. Read more
Published 17 months ago by LeserIn
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Very complete reference book
The Raleigh book is an immense referece and a pleasant read too. We learn about people behind products. Thats it what makes technical books complete;
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This is a superb work that must have taken many thousands of hours to research and document. It's wonderful as a reference work but also an entertaining read in its own right for... Read more
Published 17 months ago by A REVIEWER
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Very thorough, but repetitive and badly edited
Extremely detailed and well-researched, this book spans Raleigh's full history from 1886 to 2010. It attempts to cover not only Raleigh's factories, products, and corporate history... Read more
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