An old Victorian engraving of Starley’s ‘Coventry Chair’. It is from a book of 1890. Starley and Sutton Co of Meteor Works, Coventry, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, UK was an early pioneer of bicycles. The company was founded in 1878 by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton and made ‘bath chairs’, with provision for pedalling at the rear (as with a tricycle) – these became known as Coventry Chairs. Their ‘Rover’ bicycle design is often recognised as the first ‘modern bicycle’.
An old Victorian engraving of Starley’s ‘Coventry Chair’. It is from a book of 1890. Starley and Sutton Co of Meteor Works, Coventry, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, UK was an early pioneer of bicycles. The company was founded in 1878 by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton and made ‘bath chairs’, with provision for pedalling at the rear (as with a tricycle) – these became known as Coventry Chairs. Their ‘Rover’ bicycle design ‘set the pattern to the world’ according to Cycling Magazine and is often recognised as the first ‘modern bicycle’. The company later became J K Starley and Co.
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Location: Coventry, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, UK
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