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Name: | Famous All Over The World |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1930's; 1940's; 1950's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights, Track / Fixed Gear |
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On David Palk’s “Classic frame
builders - Claud Butler” page on the Classic Lightweights web site, Mick Butler added this description;
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Name: | Flat metal olympic head badge |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1940's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights, Track / Fixed Gear |
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Found
on a March 1949 Olympic Path, believed to be a short run first type metal head
badge from late 1948 to mid 1949 only before being replaced with the more familiar embossed badge. |
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Name: | Clapham head badge |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1940's; 1950's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights, Track / Fixed Gear |
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Repro
on the head of a 1949 Sport Anglais, I don’t know why some frames had this
badge rather than a metal one, perhaps customer choice? It also is used extensively
as a seat tube transfer up until the bankruptcy in 1956. |
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Name: | Cast Aluminium |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1950's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights |
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This head badge found on a 1952 Massed Start is interesting
on two counts, 1st its cast in an aluminium/alloy rather than pressed tin,
2nd the rings are in yet another colour configuration (yellow top right) the
badge is very light and has fine cast detail, perhaps reserved for the very top
of the range model such as the Massed Start? |
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Name: | Embossed metal olympic head badge |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1950's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights, Track / Fixed Gear |
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Found
on a February 1955 Tour of Britain, I believe this embossed badge was the
version produced from late 1949 till Claud Butler went bust in 1956, note the
yellow ring bottom left. As apposed to the Holdsworth and later, reproduction
versions which have the yellow ring top left. |
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Name: | Holdsworth plain 'works' badge |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1950's; 1960's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights, Track / Fixed Gear |
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Holdsworth’s version of the CB Works Clapham badge, without
the white address panel. Found on a 1961 Super Coureur as a seat tube badge, believed to have
been a short run used from 1958 to approximately 1962. |
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Name: | 2nd Holdsworth - Claud Butler Olympic badge |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1960's; 1970's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights, Track / Fixed Gear |
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Repro
on the seat tube of a 1969 Electron Superfive, Pre-dates the later sticker
where Holdsworth replaced the yellow ring with another red one (to save on
ink?) believed to have first appeared in 1962 (*nkilgariff) and lasted until
the mid 70’s predominantly as a seat tube crest. |
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Name: | 3rd Holdsworth - Claud Butler Olympic badge |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1970's; 1980's |
Found On: | Vintage Lightweights |
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Headbadge from a 1981 Claud Butler Italia.
Appeared
in the mid 70's losing the yellow & blue Olympic rings to reduce it to a 4 colour
print. appeared on head and seat tubes, Last badge used in the '80s before Holdsworth was bought out by Falcon. |
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Name: | Marlboro/Falcon version |
Brand: | Claud Butler |
Country: | England |
Years: | 1980's |
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Here is an original example of the last Claud Butler “Olympic
rings” this was found on a 1987 Cape Wrath MTB built by Falcon. The badge is a version
originally created by the previous owner of the brand, Holdsworth. But when the
ownership transferred to Marlboro late 1985 in the Midlands, the ‘London’ from
the ‘London England’ was dropped. The badge continued after Falcons takeover
early 1987 and I believe survived until sometime mid 1988. |
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