On Jul 15, 2007, at 6:28 PM, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
wrote:
> I friend of mine brought over an old rusty bicycle he was throwing
> away a
> nd I was disappointed that it had a Huffy name plate on it.If he
> had told
> me it was a Huffy, I would have told not to bother bringing it
> over; how
> ever, after looking at it a little more closely, it was not like
> any Huff
> y I have ever seen.
>
> The frame is a Raleigh and with a Serial Number that would indicate
> it wa
> s manufactured late 1899 or early 1900s according to Sheldon Brownâ
> s website.
>
> Is this the same Huffy that produced low end bicycle in the US?
> Sheldon Br
> ownâs website mentions that Huffy sold Raleigh's under their
name
> in the 1960âs but this one does not fit that era.
>
> Does anyone have any knowledge or information they would be willing
> to sh
> are about this bicycle? Can send pictures to anyone interested.
Yes, Huffy marketed not only Raleigh but specifically Carlton bicycles for quite a while. So it's most likely a handmade frame from Worksop! Although I don't recall that Worksop ever produced 3- speeds.... Carlton was fully bought out by Raleigh in 1960 and assigned all the handmade frame production.
Huffy, to its credit, understood that it could not build that kind of
bike well, and so at least made an attempt to serve the lightweight market.
Rick
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