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A concise illustration of the Overman Wheel Company around 1890. Albert Overman started the Overman Wheel Company in 1882 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts [1] with an investment of $62,000. [2] Overman were the first American manufacturers of the safety bicycle. [1] In 1888 the company began making its own bicycles, with a staff of about thirty ...
American Bicycle was founded by Albert Augustus Pope, owner of Columbia Bicycle. In 1898, the U.S. bicycle industry was caught in a downward spiral of market saturation, over-supply and intense price competition. Pope issued an affidavit stating that the American Bicycle Company was incorporated on May 12, 1899. [3]
1886 Swift Safety Bicycle. Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817.
Western Wheel Works was a Chicago bicycle company started by Adolph Schoeninger in 1866. It was one of the largest bicycle makers in the world. [ 1 ] In 1899 it joined a trust which controlled 95 percent of the bicycle manufacturing market.
1955 Huffy Radio Bicycle. In 1949, Huffman developed the Huffy Convertible, which was a children's bicycle with rear training wheels and foot steps. [2] The invention of the training wheels revolutionized the market for children's bicycles, and this was the first Huffman bicycle under the Huffy brand.
Rudge Whitworth Cycles was a British bicycle, bicycle saddle, [1] motorcycle and sports car wheel manufacturer that resulted from the merger of two bicycle manufacturers in 1894, Whitworth Cycle Co. of Birmingham, founded by Charles Henry Pugh and his two sons Charles Vernon and John, [2] and Rudge Cycle Co. of Coventry (which descended from a ...
The Gendron Iron Wheel Company was founded in 1872 in Toledo, Ohio by Peter Gendron (born Pierre Gendron, 1844-1910). [1] Gendron originally produced wire wheels for baby carriages. In 1890, it produced bicycles , tricycles , invalid chairs , baby carriages , doll carriages, coaster wagons , toy wheelbarrows , [ 2 ] and children's diecast toy ...
F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A., commonly known as Bianchi is the world's oldest bicycle manufacturing company in existence, having pioneered the use of equal-sized wheels with pneumatic rubber tires. [1] The company was founded in Italy in 1885 and in addition to bicycles it produced motorcycles from 1897 to 1967.