[CR] Fwd: Dunelt - Flyer ? on ebay - more info

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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:18:00 -0500
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Larry Osborn" <losborn2@wvu.edu>
Subject: [CR] Fwd: Dunelt - Flyer ? on ebay - more info


Forwarded from Peter Kohler, with his permission. A more knowledgeable source on that particular time period than I am.


>This is VERY cool... it's the Dunelt badged very, very rare Raleigh T.O.B.
>(Tour of Britain) Record frameset that came out in 1962 and was, as you
>surmise, a rebadged Carlton (I think). It may very well have been made in
>Nottingham and these were never badged Carltons. The fact it was sold as a
>Raleigh even in the UK makes me think it was indeed a bona fide Raleigh
>product and the only thing they made in Reynolds at this time.
>
>For some reason, all of the Reynolds 531 machines that seem to have imported
>into the US c. 1962-69 seem to be Dunelts.
>
>Raleigh T.O.B. framesets are VERY rare and very coveted.

Later into the 1960s, c. 1967, Dunelt sold full Campag-equipped machines in the USA which were basicially a precursor of the Raleigh International. Most of these came in "sunset yellow" (which I always think as gold) and white and come up on eBay periodically.

That's more than I knew this morning.
Larry Osborn
Bruceton Mills, West Virginia - USA