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 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Gavin Dalzell

From Graces Guide
c1845. Exhibit at Glasgow Museum of Transport.
c1845. Exhibit at Glasgow Museum of Transport.

Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. A Cooper.

Gavin Dalzell reportedly built a rear-drive bicycle as early as 1845. His son donated an original to the Glasgow Transport Museum [1]

1836 Said to have constructed and ridden a bicycle [1]

1892 Bicycling News says the credit for the first bicycle is not Dalzell but Peter McMillan [2]

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Sources of Information

  1. Cycling. The Badminton Library. Viscount Bury and G. Lacy Hillier. 1889.
  2. The Dundee Courier & Argus, Monday, February 08, 1892