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Pickwick Bicy cle Cl ub Mag azine 19 N o.2 Oct obe r 2625
Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine olume 19 No.2 October 2022 2022

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Dr Slammer provided the following photos in support of his correspondence
Harry Lawson’s ‘Bicyclette’ which was patented in
1878 and was described as a Safety Bicycle.

A circa 1892 photograph of three intrepid bicyclists. The machine on the right is a 40”
pneumatic-tyred Crypto Geared Front Driving Bicycle, similar to that seen on the back cover
of the March magazine. The
Mr Pickwick goes to France in September1888
central machine is a lever driven
‘Facile’ Safety Bicycle of the type
manufactured by Ellis & Co from
1882, and the one on the left is a
Hillman Herbert& Cooper, solid-
tyred diamond-framed Safety
Bicycle, of the equal sized wheel
type that would eventually oust
Cycle Race results from September 1888
from the market, all other types
of bicycle.

I then got a bit carried away in my search, and noted that on the same day as the Pickwick
Beauvais appeared in ‘The Graphic’ -the London Times reported another arrest in connection with
‘The Whitechapel Murders’ - aka the Jack the Ripper murders!! That puts the PBC into its historical
timeline!!
Best Wishes….Count Smorltork

A circa 1894 photograph of a pneumatic-tired Crypto
I can offer a partial response to Count Smorltork about the photo on pp24………..
Geared Front Driving Bicycle
Robert (Bob) Willis held the soubriquet of Joseph Smiggers from 1919-1931, and he was
President in 1925.
Charles Willis, his son, was Prince Bladud from 1925 - 1939.

As for W.Webb, I will leave it to our most capable soubriquet historian, the current
Joseph Smiggers to comment……………………………..Editor