| Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member | 1 of 27 Fri 30th Dec 2011 12:52pm Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1653 As the Highfield Road topic was changing focus onto something else - and just as interesting in its own right - I thought it would be worthwhile beginning a topic about James Starley and his bikes.
If nobody objects, I'll now move the relevant posts across to this one.... |
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| dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 2 of 27 Fri 30th Dec 2011 2:33pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 John Kemp Starley developed the first recognisably modern bicycle in Coventry.
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| K Somewhere All posts by this member | 3 of 27 Fri 30th Dec 2011 6:52pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 Wasn't there a relief of a Starley cycle on the monument erected to his memory near Greyfriars Green? |
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| Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 4 of 27 Fri 30th Dec 2011 8:09pm Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1653 Yep....
A 2009 photo:
And this is an older photo I took in 2005 showing the other two sides:
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| Rob Orland Historic Coventry All posts by this member Thread starter | 5 of 27 Fri 30th Dec 2011 8:20pm Webmaster: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:1653 According to the super book "Wheels Within Wheels" by Geoffrey Williamson, James Starley and William Hillman took out a joint patent in 1870 for the Ariel, the first of the "Penny Farthing" style of bicycle.
As far as I know, they were made in Coventry, although many manufacturers soon sprung up with copies and variations of Starley's design in places like Wolverhapmton, Nottingham, Sheffield, Birmingham, London, Brighton, Cheltenham and King's Lynn. |
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| K Somewhere All posts by this member | 6 of 27 Fri 30th Dec 2011 10:08pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:560 I thought - and you can see it on the monument - the Ariel wasn't what we would recognise as a penny farthing - with a large driving wheel one side, and two small steering wheels the other, with one or two seats in between - a trike, really. However, this website says differently, so seemingly he did devise the penny farthing. |
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| Foxcote Warwick All posts by this member | 7 of 27 Sat 9th Nov 2013 8:45pm Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:900 This old photograph could be placed in a number of topics but here it is and it's a link to an interesting site for all things connected to the motor/cycle trade.
Meteor Works, Queen Victoria Road |
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| dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 8 of 27 Sat 9th Nov 2013 10:24pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2976 That's actually Garfield Road which was later renamed Rover Road but is better known as being the entrance to the market.  |
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| Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 9 of 27 Thu 5th Jun 2014 5:54pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Thousands of bicycles around Oxford today, but one "jumped out" at me during my perambulation around that city!
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| TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 10 of 27 Thu 5th Jun 2014 7:13pm Member: Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1549 Well spotted! I can read the "Coventry", what does the other text say? |
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| Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 11 of 27 Thu 5th Jun 2014 9:05pm Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5606 Apologies for the lack of quality in the photo 
Coventry Eagle
5th Avenue
12 Speed
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| morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 12 of 27 Mon 22nd Jun 2015 10:51am Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1932 |
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| morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 13 of 27 Mon 22nd Jun 2015 10:53am Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1932 Centaur Cycles - ghost ad
Motorgraphs - click on each picture to get more information. Mix of cycles and motors of Coventry.
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