Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

C. A. Barnes

From Graces Guide

1902 May.'At the Crystal Palace track yesterday C. A. Barnes, of the Putney Athletic Club, mounted a Mitchell two horse-power motor-bicycle, beat the performance which the American, Rogers, recently accomplished for a five-mile spin on the same track by 26 2-5 sec. Barnes's times (taken by Mr. A. J Ockelford) were as follow: One 1 mile. 1 min. 50 1-5; two miles. 3 min 31 3-5 sec; three miles, 5 min. 12 2-5 sec: four miles, 6 min. 53 3-5 sec; and five miles, 8 min. 37 2-5 sec. '[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Saturday 24 May 1902