Well you can't knock them, I guess they were selling bikes and if the bikes came in first (who ever is sitting on them) then that's got to count. According to another CR member; 1951 Ian Steel Viking 1st GC TOB & Viking won the team prize. 1955 TOB Viking won team prize. 1958 Dick Durlacher 1st. GC who rode a Viking but rode for Austria in TOB. 1959 Brian Haskell TOB KOM 11th GC not sure about Bill Bradley I know he rode a Quinn later on but don't know for this year Best Julius Naim, London UK
On 21 Aug 2007, at 10:12, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org wrote:
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> Viking Cycles seems to have had an imaginative marketing department
> in claiming four victories in the ToB. This includes, presumably,
> the team race in 1959 which is claimed in a contemporary
> advertisment. In fact Belgium won the team classement however "the
> whole Belgian team rode Viking Severn valley framesets"! Pretty
> neat trick for a trade team to claim the team win in a race
> exclusively for national and regional teams.
> ray green, brighton, sussex