[CR]Help! Raleigh catalog, year unknown

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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:14:59 -0400
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Larry Osborn" <losborn2@wvu.edu>
Subject: [CR]Help! Raleigh catalog, year unknown

Greetings mystery lovers

Picked up a couple Raleigh catalogs at the Copake swap and need some help guessing at what year one of them was printed.

Catalog AD 9276 includes the derailleur & drop bar models Gran Sport, Sprite, and Blue Streak Mk II. There is heavy promotion of the "new" Gran Sport, so maybe this is the first year for this model. Identifiable non-Raleigh components on the Gran Sport included GB Coureur 66 brakes, Racelite alloy hubs, and oddly enough Campy Gran Sport ders. This catalog also promotes the first appearance of the "oval" headbadge, but I don't know what year that happened. The earliest catalog I have that shows oval headbadges is a 1967. The next oldest one I have is a 62, without oval headbadges. So somewhere in between......???.. just not sure exactly where. A little before my time. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Osborn