Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 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.
1870 Patent. '2791. To John Wilkins, of Oak-street, Wolverhampton, county of Stafford, for the invention of "improvements in fixing india rubber tires and tires of any compressible materials to wheels of bicycles, velocipedes, bath-chairs, and other light wheels for loco-motion."'[1]
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