Originally Posted by
bulgie
Here's the one that came on early '70s Raleigh Record. I assumed it was made in Nottingham, but I don't think there's an R.I. stamp on it, so maybe it could be from Belgium. My guess is it's more likely a Nottingham knockoff of a Titan.
(Not my pics; scraped from the net)
Looks like the famous weak binder R/I was known for~ pretty thin metal-wise for the task.
What's pictured is probably an attempt to save a very bad design.
The two Raleigh stems I've owned were almost devoid of markings- not even the "e M" roll mark that the rest of the bike parts got. The last stem had a barely legible date code on it- this a '71.
-D.S.