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The front cover of the Rudge-Whitworth 1940 catalog.

16Rudge · Catalog · 1940Supersafe Traffic, Light Roadster, Sports, Light Tourist, Roadster and Carrier Models

Rudge poster of about 1898 by Pal: a pale goddess in streaming veils rises out of a crowd at dusk and lifts a diamond-frame bicycle over her head, the Paris skyline with the Eiffel Tower black against a yellow and orange sky, under RUDGE 16, RUE HALÉVY, PARIS.

2Rudge · Poster · about 1898Pal

Rudge-Whitworth poster of about 1897: a young woman in a navy cycling costume and a veiled hat with a red feather stands beside a drop-frame lady's bicycle, looking up at a board on the wall lettered Rudge-Whitworth Ltd. beside an open-hand badge, with RUDGE-WHITWORTH LTD., CYCLE MANUFACTURERS, COVENTRY, BIRMINGHAM & LONDON at the foot.

Rudge · Poster · about 1897Rudge-Whitworth Ltd., Cycle Manufacturers

Rudge poster of about 1896: a rider in a cap and yellow stockings pedals a diamond-frame bicycle across a great globe in a starry blue night, FRANCE and RUSSIE lettered on the map, a white ring round the globe reading CYCLES RUDGE, and DUNCAN SUBERBIE & Cie. in orange at the foot.

Rudge · Poster · about 1896Marque sans Rivale, France Russie

Rudge poster of about 1890: a mustached rider in a black jersey with a tricolor sash at his waist rides a diamond-frame safety bicycle with fat tires past a river and a twin-towered church at dusk, under CYCLES RUDGE and above FABRICATION LA PLUS APPRÉCIÉE, L'ESSAYER C'EST L'ADOPTER.

Rudge · Poster · about 1890Cycles Rudge

Rudge poster of 1893: Charles Terront, mustached, in a tweed cap and dark jacket, rides a diamond-frame bicycle along a riverside path below a village, under CHARLES TERRONT, VAINQUEUR DU MATCH DE 1,000 KILOMS. SUR SA BICYCLETTE RUDGE.

Rudge · Poster · about 1893Charles Terront

The front cover of the Rudge 1939 Super-Sports leaflet: a photograph of Karel Kaers, wearing the number 20, riding his Rudge on a banked track, with the Rudge-Whitworth Limited hand roundel at the lower left and the title "1939 Super-Sports 'True-Poise' Bicycles" below.

7Rudge · Catalog · 1939Aero Special Club, Olympic Road, Aerotour and Aeropath

Boxed single-column newspaper advertisement headed Confused About English Bicycles? Buy the Best and Be SURE! Raleigh Industries Famous, with RUDGE in tall condensed capitals beside the Rudge hand device set in a crescent and the line Britain's Best Bicycle since 1869 curving beneath, a drawing of a gents' light roadster with sprung saddle, fork-crown headlamp and mudguards, the specification 23 inch frame, 26 inch wheels, Worchester Blue with white guards at $59.50 with Sturmey-Archer 3 speed gears and optional Dynohub lighting, and the dealers Georgetown Bicycle Store and Parkway Cycle Co. reversed out of a black panel at the foot.

Rudge · Advertisement · 1954Confused About English Bicycles? The Rudge Sports with Sturmey-Archer Gears

The front cover of the Rudge Export Edition catalog.

44Rudge · Catalog · 1939For Seventy Years Supreme: The True-Poise Range, Export Edition

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