Дата публикации: 26.11.2021

1970s Raleigh Chopper cycle that was ‘kept in bedroom’ up for auction

Send us your pictures for the gallery: Raleigh Chopper gallery Interview with Chopper enthusiast: Raleigh Chopper mad Send your Raleigh stories and pictures of you and your Raleigh Chopper here. Raleigh was founded in when Sir Frank Bowden bought an interest in a small bicycle company on Raleigh Street in Nottingham, England. Its early commercial success was based on quality machines raced by international cycling champions.

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Using Raleigh as their brand name, it is one of the oldest bicycle companies in the world. After being acquired by Frank Bowden in December , it became The Raleigh Cycle Company, which was registered as a limited liability company in January By , it was the largest bicycle manufacturing company in the world. From to , Raleigh also produced motorcycles and three-wheel cars, leading to the formation of Reliant Motors.

Raleigh bicycle is now a division of the Dutch corporation Accell. In the spring of that year, they started advertising in the local press. The Nottinghamshire Guardian of 15 May printed what was possibly the first Woodhead and Angois classified advertisement. Russell Street Cycle Works. Like Woodhead and Angois, Ellis’s background was in the lace industry.

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He was a lace gasser, a service provider involved in the bleaching and treating of lace, with premises in nearby Clare Street and Glasshouse Street. Thanks to Ellis, the bicycle works had now expanded round the corner from Raleigh Street into former lace works on the adjoining road, Russell Street. By , the company was making about three cycles a week and employed around half a dozen men.

Frank Bowden , a recent convert to cycling who on medical advice had toured extensively on a tricycle, first saw a Raleigh bicycle in a shop window in Queen Victoria Street, London , about the time that William Ellis’s investment in the cycle workshop was beginning to take effect.