Pete Geurds wrote:
> > ....."Written by Tony Hadland in June 2000 for the 11th International Cycle
>> History Conference held at Osaka in August 2000."
>> Interesting reading if you wonder what went on after the "good" Raleigh's
>> stopped coming to the US:
>>
>> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/
This is a fascinating article, thanks for posting the link!
Steve Freides wrote:
>In reading this...I saw the following :
>
>"Author Alan Sillitoe, an ex-Raleigh worker whose best-seller "Saturday
>Night, Sunday MorningÂ’ was set in the Nottingham factory..."
>
>Has anyone read this book and would they care to comment on it?
I haven't read the book, but I did see the movie years ago. It's a gritty, gloomy, industrial "angry-young-man" work typical of the era.
The film shows the protagonist at work operating an automatic lathe that makes cottered bottom bracket axles.
You can probably find this at a good video store.
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