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It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture. The cars ranged from a single-cylinder car in 1900 using an MMC engine, through a Swift-engined twin-cylinder 7-horsepower light car in 1904, and a 3-litre model in 1913.
1885 Advertisement for the Columbia brand Columbia ordinary, circa 1886 "Cliff". Albert Pope started advertising imported English bicycles for sale in March 1878. His initial investment in the Pope Manufacturing Company was $3,000 (USD), or worth about $125,000 in the early 21st century.
An 1880 penny-farthing (left), and a 1886 Rover safety bicycle (right) The first bicycle to be called a "safety" was designed by the English engineer Harry John Lawson (Henry Lawson) in 1876, [6] although other bicycles which fit the description had been developed earlier, such as by Thomas Humber in 1868. [7]
In 1886 at the Stanley Cycling Show they exhibited a sprung frame tricycle called the Whippet, [9] and this was to be the trade name by which they are best known, with the Linley & Biggs company being converted to the Whippet Cycling Syndicate Ltd in 1896. The sprung frame bicycle was useful when solid tyres were used, but the complexity was no ...
The Swift Folder design employs a vertical folding method, using the seat-post and a split seat-tube as the locking mechanism. To fold, the seat-post is released from the two parts of the seat-tube by their respective quick release clamps, then pulled up into the upper part of the seat-tube to unlock the frame. A pivot in the main frame tube then allows the rear triangl
After both brothers purchased bicycles in the spring of 1892, their aptitude with bicycle repairs and the high demand for repairmen led them to starting their own repair shop. In December 1892, they rented a storefront at 1005 West Third Street, where they officially started the Wright Cycle Exchange. They sold bicycles from $40 to $100.
The metal parts of the Victor bicycle were all steel; it was the first bicycle to use no cast metal parts. [1] It was also one of the first bicycles to use a hollow pneumatic tire. [3] The first Victor bicycle, introduced in 1883, was a three-wheeled bicycle produced in Chicopee Falls. [4] It was the first American-made three-wheeler. [4]