Another evocative British cycling brand of yesteryear is Sturmey Archer. Those of you who had a Raleigh Grifter or Chopper will be used to the wonders of their 3-speed hub gear systems.
In a similar vein to the Reynolds post of yesterday, Sturmey-Archer has a wonderful gallery of old marketing materials to feast your eyes on. You can read all about it here.
The Sturmey Archer brand survives to this day even though it has been owned by Taiwanese company Sunrace since the year 2000.
The new hub gears are really good stuff too and they've retained the wonderful thumb-shift selector design which I had on my Grifter - my better half now has one on her beautiful Pashley Princess.
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