vintage badged steel stem

[Excel]

....anyone know the make of this British badged steel stem?
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Griff

 

[OldTel]

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Hi, looks like a sun wasp stem, late 50's. Terry

 

[Yardbent]

guess

Lancashire Rose
Irish Shamrock
Scots Thistle....?

 

[Excel]

Re: Re:

Hi, looks like a sun wasp stem, late 50's. Terry

the Sun Wasp badge Terry was loosely designed on the Cinelli badge with the Knights helmet featuring a wasp etc. but this enameled version with the four symbols of Gt.Britain has me scratching my head, did Dawes ever produce a badged stem?

 

[OldTel]

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Hi, you are right, I was doing it off the top of my head, although just for reference ( hence the bad trigger in my head ), they did decorate the bikes with a border decal of the 4 home countries symbols in the final throws of the non raleigh period. Terry