Cycles
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 105 cycles. These date from 1800 to the present. This collection contains 88 pedal-driven bicycles, with the remainder comprising tricycles or quadricycles. The collection boasts several significant items of interest, including a wooden Draisienne hobby horse from the 1820s and the world’s earliest surviving pedal-driven bicycle, made by Gavin Dalzell around 1846, inspired by Kirkpatrick MacMillan's original design of 1839. The collection also holds a Jubilee Chopper bike from 1977 and two carbon-fibre bicycles made in 2004 by the world-champion Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree. The Glasgow firms of Howe, Rattray, Argyle and Robertson are also represented by the inclusion of many 19th and 20th century bicycles manufactured in Scotland. The collection also includes four finely made ‘ordinary’ bicycles, also known as penny-farthings, from the 1870s and 1880s, and an early example of the ‘safety’ bicycle also from the 1880s. It further holds a recumbent bicylcle and a tandem, both made in the 1930s, 11 tricycles, including a trishaw from the 1860s, and two four-wheeled machines, or quadricycles. In addition there is a 1930s Pacer and a Brox Bike, described as ‘a van without an engine’. Additional items in the collection include spare parts, tools and an estimated 100 photographs and documents relating to cycling.
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