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Head badges

Compiled by Peter Underwood

Some time ago now, it was suggested by Peter Brown that I display some images of the headbadges which we held on file. Since we first uploaded the page they have flooded in and this has created quite an archive. One journalist researcher wondered why there were so many 'heraldic' badges, I assumed that the badge suppliers had 'stock' designs which were modified to suit the builder. Some took their local coat-of-arms. I realised that some builders formed around 1948 used the 'Olympic' theme to commemorate the Olympics held in London that year.

Straight away I will apologise for the image quality, in some cases such as the 'early Claud Butler' this as good as it gets as it is a very rare badge.

It is very hard to get good images of badges on bikes and most of these are cropped from shots depicting the head tube and lugs when originally taken. Some images are small and are reserving a space until I find a larger version. Some are very wide - these are flat transfers or drawings. Some are reproduction transfers, some originals. If you have a better example of what we show, or if you have something we don't have, please forward an image to me as a .jpg and I can replace the weaker image. This page may help those trying to identify a frame with an incomplete badge, whilst not ideal as copy for reproduction of a transfer, they could give some idea of the layout and colours. As I can't remember where all of the badges came from I won't attempt to acknowledge them. If they are yours and you could send in a better version for this page please do so in order to improve the stock.

Badges are displayed alphabetically:
Page One Allin to Hayson
Page Two Hetchins to Paris
Page Three Parkes to Willer
Page Four Down tube transfers and component badges