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Carlton

Everything Ebykr holds on Carlton: two articles and a Timeline of 18 dated events from 1896 to 1982.

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Carlton Cycles: Foundation for Greatness

Carlton Cycles from Fred Hanstock's roadsters of 1896 through Dan O'Donovan's lightweights to Raleigh's takeover in 1960 and the end of the marque.

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Where Carlton is named outside its own pages: four articles and 30 archive documents from four other makers and one publication.

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The articles that name Carlton most often first.

  1. Raleigh for the Masses: Evolution of a Bicycle Giant

    …easy to conclude that the marque built nothing a club cyclist would want until it bought Carlton in 1960. That is not true, and the exception matters a great deal to us aficionados. Raleigh introduced a quality…

    HistoryNamed seven times

  2. How to Identify and Date a Vintage Raleigh

    …catalog position suggests. Much of Raleigh's quality lightweight production was really Carlton work — the Worksop firm Raleigh bought in the spring of 1960 — and the Raleigh-Carlton range became an icon of the…

    GuideNamed four times

  3. Raleigh for the Masses: A Timeline of a Bicycle Giant's Evolution

    …the cycle division of a large industrial group. 1960 · Acquisition · Raleigh acquired Carlton Cycles of Worksop, a small specialist race-bike builder. Carlton brought a genuine lightweight capability and the…

    TimelineNamed twice

  4. Reparto Corse: Edoardo Bianchi & the History of Bianchi Bicycles

    …and parts. There were quite a few nice finds in the mix: A minty fresh Peugeot PX-10, a Carlton with Reynolds 531 tubing, and a newer Raleigh frame and fork. There was one frameset that really caught my attention…

    HistoryNamed once

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