[CR]Chater-Lea history

I have no particular reason to learn about Chater-Lea --- I don't think I've even ever seen a Chater-Lea part --- but industrial history interests me. Perhaps because of the company's short history (1928 to.... maybe 1950-something?) there's very little information about teh company out there.

========================= http://www.glias.org.uk/news/164news.html The same year the Westinghouse Morse Chain Company was established and Chater-Lea started in 1928. Much of the workforce for Letchworth's industries came not from Letchworth itself where accommodation became too expensive, but from the surrounding villages. Transport to and from work was often by bicycle.

========================= Subject: ***Velo-Retro Vint. Bike Catalogs*** Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.marketplace Date: 2001-01-18 00:18:09 PST

Chater-Lea Cycles & Tandems Catalog 1928 -- 16 pages, charming pen drawings of this English manufacturer of high quality cycle parts and bikes. B&W cover. $5

Chater-Lea Catalog 1931 -- 22 pages, shows lugs, cranks, pedals, headsets, hubs for cycles, tandems and carrier tricycles from this famous English company. B&W cover. $5

========================== And of course this.... http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British/Chater_Lea_main.htm which perhaps should be amended to show the start date as 1928 (not 1930).

- Charles
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Charles B. Kramer
New York, NY