Charles James Reynolds (1857-1942)
c1857 Born in Hackney
1885 C. J. Reynolds of Bow, wrote to The Engineer, about works he supervised where bolts were put through the wall of a canal[1]
1886 C. J. Reynolds purchased the goodwill of Hickling and Co and carried on the business until 1900.
1890 The 'Pilot' light-roadster bicycle, made by the Pilot Cycle Co., Maidenhead, was fitted with C. J. Reynolds's triangulated system of spoking, Patent No. 3775/1889. This system was advertised as “The wheel of the future." In company with other riders of the 'ordinary.' I tested the Reynolds triangulated wheel and found it too rigid and un-yielding to be either speedy or comfortable (according to a correspondent on the Stanley Cycle Show).
1891 Charles J Reynolds 34, mechanical engineer and cycle maker, was a boarder in Maidenhead in the house of Elizabeth Wright[2]
1901 Charles J Raynolds 44, mechanical engineer, lived in Maidenhead with Ellen Raynolds 37, and his mother in law Elizabeth Wright[3]
1909 Patent with George Albert Ure of Bonnybridge on improvements in hopper fed stoves.
1911 Charles James Reynolds 54, Consulting Engineer Mechanical, widower, lived in Maidenhead[4]
1942 Died in Lymington[5]