RE: [CR]Rudge or Raleigh ?

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From: "Neil Foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: nick Bordo <nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]Rudge or Raleigh ?
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:25:37 +0000
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I have a 1938 Rudge-Whitworth catalogue, and it lists a number of models wi th 28 inch wheels, which could be supplied with hub brakes, or hub brakes w ith Sturmey 3-speed gear, as optional extras. Since Sturmey also supplied hub brakes (and hub brakes incorporating 3-and 4-speed gears) after the wa r, I think it's going to be difficult to establish the age of this machine from your description alone.

Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England.
> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:45:05 +0200
> From: nicbordeaux@yahoo.fr
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Rudge or Raleigh ?
>
> I recently located and have the opportunity to purchase for peanuts a Rud ge in pretty nice condition. There is a nice enamelled headbadge, the wheel s are 28 inch "ridged" chromed, brakes both back and front are drum (approx
   1 1/2 inch wide) and lever operated. The saddle is leather. It is a "utili tairian", not a racer. Their is no sturmey archer obviously, given the hub brake config., so it's a single speed. I wouldn't normally look at this typ e of machine, but the condition is amazing.
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> I know that Raleigh took over the Rudge brand and marketed identical bi kes to their own under the Rudge label. On the basis of the scanty info giv en here, does this sound like a definite early Rudge, or potentially a late r one ? I'm sorry, I didn't have a camera with me, so I have no photos.
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> Nick March, Mont de Marsan, landes, 40 France.
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