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Gilbert, George, active 1776-1780, of Add MS 38530
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British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000625.0x000020
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Gilbert, George, -1781
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George Gilbert (c.1853-1915), cycle pioneer and manufacturer, was apprenticed as an art metal worker with Skidmore, but left the trade to join the Coventry Machinist Company in Old Cheylesmore when it first started making bicycles. Five years later in 1875, aged 22, he set up the Centaur Cycle Company with Edmund Mushing in West Orchard and was particularly successful in introducing a lightweight bicycle. The King of Scorchers, brought out in 1890 weighed only 26 lbs. Other inventions patented b...