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 166,775 pages of information and 246,602 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.

Charles Digby Roberts

From Graces Guide

of Alma Street Works, Coventry

1876 C. D. Roberts. Award for 'Spider bicycle' at the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition.[1]

1877 Company liquidated. '...Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, instituted by Charles Digby Roberts, of Alma-street, Coventry, in the county of Warwick, Metal Worker and Bicycle Manufacturer, carrying on business under the style of the Skidmore's Art Manufactures and Constructive Iron Company, lately carrying on the same business, at the same place, under the same style, in partnership with William Edward Wyatt...'[2]

1895 Marriage of Alfred Henry Roberts the son of the late Charles Digby Roberts.[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Gazette Issue 24372 published on the 13 October 1876. Page 10 of 56
  2. [2] Gazette Issue 24439 published on the 30 March 1877. Page 55 of 68
  3. Morning Post - Wednesday 29 May 1895