Original Message: ----------------- From: Steve Birmingham sbirmingham@mindspring.com Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:05:32 -0500 To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: RE: [CR]Re: How the mighty are fallen - OT Raleigh comments- back ontopic questions
Do any of the Raleigh experts here have an idea as to wether all plants made lightweights? Or what
models came from which plants? It would be interesting to see if any high end bikes were made elsewhere especially Malaysia. It would have saved some money on shipping, but may have cost too much for tooling.
The only lightweight Raleighs I've seen other than from Nottingham and Worksop are those made by the Gazelle plant in the Netherlands c. 1970s during the bike boom panic. They turned out Grand Prix, Records etc... not the high end Carlton branded stuff.
I doubt very much if the Malaysia plant made any lightweights as it was too far away from the principal market for these machines... the USA. More likely are lightweights made by Raleigh (Ireland). The Canadian plant turned out a quantity of assembled (poorly!) Sports and LTD-3s c. 1973-74 but like the Enid (USA) plant, I believe there was no production capacity, merely assemblying the fully stripped down "kits" sent from England. What pray tell was "Handsworth (UK)"...? first I've heard of that one.
Thanks for the memo on the serial numbers... this was the ONE time when Raleigh's system made sense and jibes with the stuff we have in our basements, garages and apartments..
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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