I think you're misunderstanding Hilary's comment: he wasn't saying that all Raleighs were built down to a price, but that the various models were built to price points according to the target market for each particular model.
As an illustration, a 1934 road test of a recently-introduced Raleigh model in "Cycling" states that the company had not previously wished to exceed a certain price for a top-of-the-range machine, but that volume of sales had encouraged them to introduce a higher-specification model at a correspondingly higher price point.
Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:14:35 -0800
> From: gillies@ece.ubc.ca
> Subject: Re: [CR] Dawes owners got no reason to live ...
>
> As their bikes were built with a design goal of "pricepoints",
> according to Hilary, and so were Raleighs, according to Hilary
> Stone, and so were other "production bikes".
>
> Laurent Fignon - 'Pricepoint' rider.
> Lance Armstraong - 'Pricepoint' rider.
>
> I just wanted to make his point clear, before I go for a ride. I feel
> like tooting around the block on my "1975 RALEIGH TEAM PRicepOint"
> (SB310), 'nuff said ...
>
> - Don (making trouble) Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA