Starley Bicycle, ca. 1887
Starley Bicycle, ca. 1887
- Description
- The Starley Brothers of St. John's Works, in Coventry, England, built this Psycho brand bicycle around 1887. The bicycle is of the improved cross-frame, safety type with a crank-bracket stay, a stay between the steering head and the top of the saddle post, and a pair of stays from the rear end of the rear fork to the top of the saddle post.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Bicycle, 1887
- bicycle
- Other Terms
- Bicycle, 1887; Road
- date made
- ca 1887
- Associated Place
- United Kingdom: England, Coventry, Coventry
- ID Number
- TR.218218
- catalog number
- 218218
- accession number
- 40967
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. E. Hosford
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- America on the Move
- Bicycling
- Transportation
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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