Well the obvious one IN Coventry is the best in Britain: the Coventry Transport Museum. I visited this back in 1985: packed with motorcars, motorcycles and bicycles and of course, featuring the local makes mostly including the peerless Rudge-Whitworth. Loads of cycles on display, posters and the like. And if you love the Morris Minor, even better still! Birmingham is a stone's throw away but although I visited the Science and Transport Museum there, I don't recall lots on the once enormous cycle industry around there.
I suspect it's been jazzed up since then but it was a huge, fascinating place and an easy walk from the railway station. Coventry is a great town and you can't beat Midlands hospitality. The true Heart of England.
Is the Raleigh archives accesible to researchers at the Univ of Nottingham?? That's also a very easy journey from Coventry. When I visited in 1985 as well, you could still tour, by appointment, the Raleigh works in Triumph Road, Lenton. All of course gone now.
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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