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It may also be possible to date your frame by its serial number.Note that the serial number information below is fragmentary and incomplete, and many bikes have proven to be much newer than the serial numbers would suggest.For many years, in many parts of the world, the Raleigh "Sports" three-speed bicycle was considered the ultimate in human-powered transportation.These bicycles were not toys, and, despite the model name, they were not sporting equipment..were serious vehicles.Raleigh, in its glory years (up into the 1960's) was the absolute opposite.In their enormous Nottingham factory covered 40 acres and employed nearly 7000 workers.Actually, many well-known brands don't even do that; they order bicycle frames to be built to their specifications, with their name painted on, and equipped with parts from a variety of vendors.These companies are actually trading companies, even though their image is that of a manufacturer.
This table is focussed on the mainline Raleigh/Rudge/Humber "Sports" model.Britain's rise to an industrial superpower on the crest of the Industrial Revolution was based, as much as anything else, on the steel industry and the new technologies it made possible: steel ships, steel bridges, steel buildings..steel bicycles.