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Old School Hero
I have published a new article on my blog "On the Drops":
"Record Aces: The Raleigh/Sturmey-Archer Team 1936-1940"
http://on-the-drops.blogspot.com/2017/0 ... -team.html
This concerns the professional team put together by Charles Marshall to promote the new racing hub gears made by Sturmey-Archer c. 1936-40 by going after the R.R.A. road records in Britain. The riders were Sid Ferris, Bert James, Charles Holland and in 1939-40, Tommy Godwin going for the world's mileage record. In the end, the team held 9 of the 15 R.R.A. records as well as the alltime world's mileage record (Godwin) of 100,000 miles in 499 days. This record remains unbroken to this day.
Peter Kohler
Washington, DC USA
"Record Aces: The Raleigh/Sturmey-Archer Team 1936-1940"
http://on-the-drops.blogspot.com/2017/0 ... -team.html
This concerns the professional team put together by Charles Marshall to promote the new racing hub gears made by Sturmey-Archer c. 1936-40 by going after the R.R.A. road records in Britain. The riders were Sid Ferris, Bert James, Charles Holland and in 1939-40, Tommy Godwin going for the world's mileage record. In the end, the team held 9 of the 15 R.R.A. records as well as the alltime world's mileage record (Godwin) of 100,000 miles in 499 days. This record remains unbroken to this day.
Peter Kohler
Washington, DC USA
