Dave Feldman wrote: <I can confirm the Malaysia--used to have a Raleigh Sport 3-speed with that country of origin. Did Raleigh either buy or lease a whole factory from Gazelle to produce the Grand Prix for the US market? This would be mid-70's.>
IIRC, TI owned both Raleigh and Gazelle at the time, so they simply began to product Raleighs in the same factory. I recall that the best built Raleighs that I built up were still the English bikes - the worst were the USA built bikes. Lousy wheels, very sloppy paint...
Cheers,
Mark Ritz
Arcata, CA