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Radially spoked 52" machine. Make as yet unknow.
Bowns Aeolus front wheel bearings. Saddle like the
"Amerikaner-Sattel" by Bradley Birmingham/ England
(leather replaced). Removable handlebar, stamped 97, single
bolt attachment to head. Similarity to the detachable handlebar on the Coventry Imperial machine by Coventry Cycle Co. Ltd. in 1886/87. The Step is adjustable like the Bayliss,
Thomas & Co. "B 52" stamped on the neck. The front
wheel fork is stamped on the top of the tube for the spindle with
97 and on the button of the head with B 43. The break lever is
stamped with the number 43, too.

 

 
Cow horn shape handlebar   Front wheel brake

 

This machine was once manufacted
with a slide-spring. This is a so-called
Amerikaner-Saddle as mounted in
the high bicycle aera.

Horn handle   "Amerikaner"-saddle

 
Clothes protection   Head cover

 
Hub   Adjustable step by
Bayliss, Thomas & Co

 
Single butted spokes   Spoke head in the rim

 

 
Adjustable ball bearing pedals
(Pedals rebuild) 		  Bown´s Aeolus ball bearing   Bown´s Aeolus ball bearing

 

 
Rear wheel   Round backbone   Rear hub with ball bearings


Details

 

 
Head adjustment nut   Head from top
(97)
  Head adjustment nut

 

 
Single bolt attachment handlebar to head (97)   97 on top of the handlebar
 
Handlebar from below

 

 
Recess for the spoon brake holder   Holder for the spoon brake   Holder for the spoon brake
(fitted)


 

 
Handle clip
(PATENT) 		  Original pedal with
"white" rubber		   Ball bearing pedal


 

 
No. 13 is stamped on the forkend   Brake lever
(43)		   B 43 on the head buttom

 

 
Neck with spindle
(52 B) 		  Head cover   Stamped neck
(52 B)

 
Rear wheel hub   Rear wheel hub

 
Gold paint fragment of maker or dealer on backbone   Gold paint fragment of maker or dealer on backbone






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Collection: Markus Beer.