![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first of Britain's "New Wave" films probing the changing societal world of the ordinary British worker, Saturday Night And Sunday Morning was shot in and around Raleigh's sprawling Nottingham works and fittingly released in 1960 when the Company and the British cycle industry itself was fraught with the change and upheaval. And, most importantly, the business and the British cycle industry itself was transformed with the takeover of Raleigh by Tube Investments which was preceded by a few weeks by Raleigh acquiring Carlton Cycles. What was then the largest cycle factory in the world, Raleigh's famous Nottingham works, was the backdrop to a newly released film, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, based on a story by Nottingham native and former Raleigh employee Alan Sillitoe and starring Albert Finney. Sir Harold Bowden died on 27 August, the son of Raleigh's founder Sir Frank Bowden, and Chairman of the company from 1921-1938. In Raleigh Cycle Co.'s 125-year (and counting) history, 1960 was a seminal year. Before the Raleigh Professionals, Internationals, Competitions and Super Courses, there were Flyers, Franco-Suisses and Catalinas Dunelts, Huffys and Meteors. 1961-1969 when its machines were among the comparatively few high end ones available in the country. This article attempts to document Carlton's initial exports to the United States c. In many ways, America was the making and eventually the breaking of Carlton which went from a small bespoke factory to one mass producing more high end British racing bicycles than any firm before or since. At the same time, Carlton was suddenly thrust into the nascent American market and figured prominently in the country's astonishing "Bike Boom" of the mid 1970s. It led, eventually, to its sponsoring the first British team to win the Tour de France, and for the first and only time, with a British designed and built bicycle. The acquisition of Carlton by Raleigh in 1960 marked a new era for the company in building and selling top-end racing bicycles. ![]()
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