Raleigh bicycles - a history in pictures

The badge from a Raleigh Rapide Photograph: John Windmill for the Guardian

A scene inside a Raleigh bicycle factory in Nottingham Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

A cover from a 1921 issue of Cycling magazine, showing the latest bicycle and fashion of the era Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Children on bikes in a street of terraced houses - one is a Raleigh Chopper Photograph: Don McPhee for the Guardian

Raleigh produced three-wheeled cars from 1921-1935, which paved the way for the classic Reliant Robin Photograph: Glenn Copus/Rex Features

The inaugural Chopper Dash cycle race in Colne, Lancashire Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Raleigh antique enamel advertising signs at Horsted Keynes Station, Sussex
Photograph: John Curtis / Rex Features

In the 1940s, Raleigh was given the possibility of exclusivity of the manufacture of the biro Photograph: Alamy

Raleigh Choppers are ridden during the relaunch of the cult 1970s bicycle at the Raleigh headquarters in Nottingham Photograph: Darren Staples/Corbis