Raleigh Serial Number

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Raleigh Serial numbers

Mar 6, 2016 - I assume the '00287' is the frame number in the shift/batch etc. Decoding Raleigh Frame #'s to determine age-r-100-serial- I think dating the. Mar 1, 2009 - I looked up Sheldon Brown's Raleigh serial number dating page and checked my bike, but guess what? It doesn't match. For a bike of about.

By Θεόφιλος Μπερναλής on Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 10:41 AM

Re: Raleigh Serial numbers. [quote='MikewsMITH2']Does anyone know year of Raleigh Frame number 2766408 of a Raleigh 27' cottered 'Racer' frame number located on top of seat tube lug? Sheldon Brown reckons there should be letters.[/quote I think it might be week 27 of 1966 bike /fame number 408. Vintage Raleigh Bicycle Serial Numbers. Bicycle History: Nottingham – The Raleigh Cycle. Serial Numbers; 1940 to 1949 Models; Military - Wartime singles undated but identified by 3HW, 3SW, or 5SW prefix. 1950 to Current (Engine and frame numbers match). This is the only explanation I can suggest regarding this issue.

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Post Second World War - 1955

RALEIGH SERIAL NUMBER DATES: After the war, Raleigh began adding letters after the running number series which restarted when a new letter was used. (Info from the Nottinghamshire Archives)

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Columbia Bicycle Serial Number Database

1947: 437689 P 1948: 556894 P 1949: 695051 P 1951: 151179 T 1952: 236530 T 1953: 367369 T 1954: 566722 T 1955: 747951 T 1956: 852312 T 1957: 872584 T

Raleigh Serial Numbers

1955 - 1966

A new numbering system was introduced in 1955, though this ran concurrently with the old one for two years. The new system involved a second running letter, added to the first, which began at the start of the alphabet.

Raleigh Serial Number 4pa41082

1956: 23839 A 1957: 27227 AB 1958: 17910 AD 1960: 27273 AE 1961: 13126 AF 1965/6: 40814 FD 1966: 64521 FE

Note: Some of the mid-60's straight guage 531 frames had serial numbers starting with a single letter which was towards the end of the alphabet.

1967 - 1973

Raleigh Serial Number

Yet another number system was introduced in 1966. This new system applied to the high-end (i.e. Reynolds 531) frames, and involved the placing of a character at the beginning of the serial number. The character began at the start of the alphabet, and indicated year of manufacture. Detail about the numerals that follow the alphabet are sketchy, and are presumably sequential serial numbers of some kind.

1966: A, followed by four numerals 1967: B, followed by four numerals 1968: C, followed by four numerals 1969: D, followed by four numerals 1970: E, followed by four numerals 1971: F, followed by four numerals 1972: G, followed by four numerals 1973: H, followed by four numerals

Note: While this numbering scheme is generally true, there may have been some crossover use of letters at the beginning/end of each year (e.g. a 'G' serial number may have been built into a bike in 1973, but the frame may have been built in 1972).

1974 - 1980's

In 1974, an entirely different numbering system was introduced for the higher end (531 and subsequently 753) Raleighs. Serial numbers should begin with a 'W', which stands for Worksop, the facility that produced theses frames. This is followed by another alphabet. This alphabet indicates the fortnight in which the frame was built (i.e. A = 1st fortnight, B = 2nd, etc.). The third character is always a numeral. It indicates the year of manufacture, the decade being assumed (i.e. '4' could be '74 or '84; it is up to the interpretor to know enough to tell if the frame is from the 70's or 80's). What then follows is a series of numbers. At this point, these appear to be some sort of sequence, but this has not been substantiated.

Raleigh Serial Number 8056601

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