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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.
About the Author
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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Interest in bicycle history has grown considerably in recent years, and manufacturer monographs have now appeared in Italy, Austria, France, Germany and the US. Among them are scholarly emanations with the cover being the only picture provided. Others are mere coffee table books with sloppily researched texts. Hadland's Raleigh history comes up to our expectations completely. His immense research is told fluently in digestible paragraphs, and more than 600 photos and other illustrations are presented. Whoever has tried to collect a comparable mass of historical photos knows how much work of love and labour is represented by this book. As in his earlier books on Moultons and Sturmey-Archer hubs, Hadland provides a superior overview over the many diverse product lines at Raleigh. The human aspects of the company history are treated convincingly as well and never appear dull. This book is a true match to the unique role that Raleigh played in the cycling world.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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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