The aim of this book is simple yet ambitious: to produce in a single volume a detailed & complete history of the Raleigh cycle company of Nottingham from its founding to the present. It covers not only bicycles but also motorcycles cars vans munitions motorcycle engines & bicycle & motorcycle gears. The story of Raleigh is fascinating in many different respects
- the people the products the production methods & more. The personalities involved were many & various ranging from the founders ambition to make the best bicycles money could buy to anonymous suits" almost running the company into the ground from fancy offices in New York. But Raleigh also deeply touched the lives of tens of thousands of other people who depended on it directly or indirectly particularly in & around the city of Nottingham."