Reynolds and King
1881 Advertising their 'Great Steam Yachts or Sea on Land'.[1]
1882 Erected at the fair a 'real steam railway'.[2]
1883 'Sea on Land' by the owners Messrs Reynolds and King from London.[3]
1885 Messrs Reynolds and King designed the overhead crank system which was improved upon the following year by Tidmans of Norwich.
1886 '...the elaborate and costly "Galloping Horses" of Messrs Reynold and King...'[4]
1889 'William Reynolds, who was summoned as Reynolds and King, was charged with committing a breach of the Locomotives Act by using a locomotive without a license, in Market-street, on the 23rd June. Defendant appeared by Mr. Cooke, his manager. Police-sergeant Emms said he saw the locomotive, which belonged to the "Galloping Horses," in Market-street, drawing four trucks; it afterwards went on to the fair-ground. He had since ascertained that the owner had no license to drive on the highway....'[5]
1891 Reynolds and King's patent swinging-out motion for Horse Roundabouts manufactured by Frederick Savage.[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Kentish Express - Saturday 08 October 1881
- ↑ Thanet Advertiser - Saturday 14 October 1882
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams - Wednesday 19 September 1883
- ↑ Witney Express and Oxfordshire and Midland Counties Herald - Thursday 16 September 1886
- ↑ Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger - Saturday 27 July 1889
- ↑ The Era - Saturday 14 February 1891