At 11:41 PM 5/2/2009, you wrote:
>Perhaps due to senility, I get confused as to what year to attribute the
>Raleigh Anniversary or Coronation (which one correct?)
>headbadge. This is the
>oval-shaped stamped badged as opposed to Heron badge.
>
>Looking at RetroRaleigh 1969 catalog pic, the 1969 (date code Dxxxx) had
>oval badge. My 1970 (date code Exxxx) Competition has oval badge as does my
>1971 (date code Fxxxx) International. I don't have a 1968 (date code Cxxxx)
>or 1972 (date code Gxxxx) to confirm...but oval badge was used for at least
>1969 thru 1971. Can anyone chime-in for 1968 and/or 1972?
>
>Jack Romans
>Sacramento, California
Greetings campers and headbadge hooligans
Missed the beginning of this thread. Maybe also the end. Many emails being beamed out into deep space before they arrive here.
I've see the oval badge on early serial 71-ish (F) model frames, and the heron badge on later serial 71-ish (F) model Internationals, (not on the brown MK II or MK III (F) Pros. Don't know about the 71-ish Competitions.), so the change back to the heron seems to have happened in that time frame somewhere, as they were used up.
It appears on most of the derailleur model bikes in the 67 & 68 US catalogs. Also appears with much fanfare ("A new, vivid version of cycling's most famous mark !") in what I believe to be a 62 or 63-ish UK catalog ("more colourful, more in keeping with the new age of speed that these cycles are brilliantly designed and built for!"), on the Gran Sport and Sprite models ("The most exciting speed cycles that ever happened. Brilliantly new, from headcrest onwards".)
Raleigh 75th anniversary? Never really gets called an "anniversary" badge in the catalog I have. Was there a coronation in the early 60s?
Larry "blah blah supreme quality blah blah their lithe, lively lines blah blah blah" Osborn Bruceton Mills, West Virginia USA