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1923 350cc Raleigh - Sammy Miller Foundation Trust Museum

Side Valve : Tree Speed Gearbox.

This machine usually has a chain and belt drive combination.

It uses a 350cc side valve engine, raleigh produced many engine configurations from the 698cc flat twins, 798cc V Twins to the 175cc, 248cc, 348cc, 498cc side valve engines and also the more modern 348cc and 498cc overhed valve singles.

They ceased production of motorcycles in 1933.

Raleigh then carried on to be a very successful bicycle manufacturer and were taken over by Tube Investments LTD, an engineering firm who had many connections in British engineering.

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Uploaded on October 20, 2012
Taken on October 4, 2012