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The company was founded in 1888 and first produced bikes on Raleigh Street in Nottingham. For decades it was the producer of bicycles in the world. But the firm can no longer compete with cheap foreign imports and 280 people are to lose their jobs when production ends at the Triumph Road factory at the end of the year. Chairman Phillip Darnton said in an interview that "people won't pay extra just because it's a Raleigh bike." The company was hoping to move production to Bulwell but there were delays involving the local council over the availability of the site. No one from the council was available for comment. In an interview outside the House of Commons, Nottingham North Labour MP, Graham Allen attacked the local council "I hope they are happy, three hundred people are now out of work." B/w archive of Raleigh bike production in the 1940s (Thus We Served). Library shots of production lines at Triumph Road and brief library shots of a man on a mountain bike, a man riding a Chopper and Tony Blair on a factory visit.
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