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 164,290 pages of information and 246,083 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.

Horace Wilton Bartleet

From Graces Guide
Bartleet on a 53-inch 'Ordinary Bicycle'. From 'Bartleet's Bicycle Book'.
Bartleet on a 'Coventry Rotary' Tricycle of 1876. From 'Bartleet's Bicycle Book'.
From 'Bartleet's Bicycle Book'.

Horace Wilton Bartleet (1870-1943) was involved with the development of cycling in Great Britain. His bequest to Coventry of 40 cycles is housed in the Museum of British Road Transport and a large quantity of printed, written, and photographic material is held in Coventry Central Library.

Wrote Bartleet's Bicycle Book

1904 BARTLEET, Horace W., 19, College Court Mansions, Hammersmith, London, W. Car: 10 h.p. Gladiator. Total distance travelled since becoming a motorist: 20,000 miles. Hobbies: Cycling, motoring. Took part in the 1,000 miles' trial of the Automobile Club in May, 1900, going through the three weeks' tour on a 3-h p. air-cooled Decauville. Since that time has followed the movement with keen interest. Has devoted a good deal of study to the tyre question, and has contributed articles on tyres to the Motor Press. Club: Nottingham and District Automobile. [1]

1909 November. Letter concerning the development of the pneumatic tyre.[2]

1911 Living at 11 St Germans Road, Forest Hill: Horace Wilton Bartleet (age 40 born Aust), Cycle and Motor Journalist. With his wife Edith Bartleet (age 37 born Brockley, Kent) and their son John Wilton Bartleet (age 7 born Hammersmith).[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. Motoring Annual and Motorist’s Year Book 1904
  2. The Autocar 1909/11/27
  3. 1911 Census