Edward Loxley
Edward Loxley (c1877-1938)
See Trilox
1911 Residing at 64 Islington, Trowbridge: Edward Loxley (age 34 born Trowbridge), basket maker. with his wife Rosa Annie.[1]
1938 Obituary.[2]
Mr. Loxley, who died in Bath Hospital, where he had been under treatment for a fortnight, had been a cripple all his life, but despite this handicap was always of a bright and cheerful disposition, and in fact his disability was the inspiration of an invention which brought him certain amount of fame and considerable business. This was the making of an ingeniously designed invalid chair, self-propelled, which he invented and constructed for his own use and later made and sold in considerable quantities. To this chair he gave the name Trilox.
In recent years his chair was fitted with a motor-cycle engine, and was familiar to many in the town. Mr. Loxley’s original trade was that of a basket maker, which he carried on at Islington for great many years, and more recently from his home in Newtown. He was the patentee of several ingenious contrivances in connection with pigeon-baskets, in the making of which he was a specialist, and during the war he did great work in the making of baskets for the carrying of pigeons in reconnoitring aeroplanes, by means of which valuable information was sent to British headquarters from behind the enemy lines. For this work he received many high commendations. His business in pigeon basket making spread to all parts of the British Isles and many foreign countries and Colonies.
As a young man Mr. Loxley was associated with Manvers Street Methodist Church, and later with St. Thomas’ Church, where he was Churchwarden for several years, but recently worshipped when able at Holy Trinity Church. He was years of age and leaves widow— formerly Miss Harding no children. Two brothers and four sisters survive.