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Worksop, Nottingham, England
 Updated 9/16/2006

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    A very old family operation for most of it's existence, Carlton was the domain of the O'Donovan family until its purchase in 1961 by Raleigh Industries. Even then, Gerald O'Donovan became well known as the guiding innovator at Worksop and later, Ilkston, where more exotic Carlton and Raleigh bicycles were made...

Jeremy Mortimer's dedicated Carlton web site   

1939 Carlton Catalog...showing lugs & bike weights, Carlton "Continental"

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Scroll Flyer track frame circa 1940s?

            

November 15, 1961 Cycling:
"1962 - YOUR NEW LIGHTWEIGHT
Harry Keating describes a visit to the Carlton works and
introduces a series on new machines for 1962 by reviewing the
Sun range now in production at Worksop."
 Click title to read entire text.

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Bob Gordon's "International" & an International lug set before being brazed up...

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Advert and drawings from from Earl Court show

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Nels Miller's International

        

Carlton model Franco-Suisse frame set

                  
       

             

1961 catalog, 1962 Catalog cover

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Wayne Deoreo's pristine 1960s Carlton

       

            

1960s era down tube decal, 1972 advertisement, 1974 "Lagoon Blue" cyclocross.

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Apparently Huffy imported Carlton Bicycles in the mid 1960s
(About that same period they also imported Moulton bikes as well.)

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 Thanks to Bob Hufford

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