Originally Posted by
lopek77
After the failure of the SW in the market and the re-commitment to the AW, Sturmey-Archer began to widely license the design, with fully interchangeable clones of the AW eventually being made under labels including J.C. Higgins, Sears, Austro-Daimler, Brampton, SunTour, and others..."
For the sake of those who weren't around then and must depend on Wiki entries: The
SW hub was a failure, but Sturmey had not stopped making the AW, which had been a resounding success. It's true that it did license the hub design to some other manufacturers, but Schwinn, Raleigh U.S.A. (of course) and others continued to spec their bikes with SA hubs.