Daniel Albone was an English inventor, manufacturer and cyclist. He invented the first successful light farm tractor, and the Ivel Safety bicycle.
Dan Albone in 1905
Ivel motor car, electric ignition independent suspension
Ladies' Ivel motor bicycle
Dan Albone with his 1902 prototype Ivel Agricultural Motor
A safety bicycle is a type of bicycle that became very popular beginning in the late 1880s as an alternative to the penny-farthing and is now the most common type of bicycle. Early bicycles of this style were known as safety bicycles because they were noted for, and marketed as, being safer than the high wheelers they were replacing. Even though modern bicycles use a similar design, the term is rarely used today and is considered obsolete outside circles familiar with high wheelers.
1885 Rover safety bicycle in the London Science Museum
1887 advertisement for a safety bicycle, Wolverhampton, England
Early safety bicycle (c. 1879) in the Coventry Transport Museum
1884 McCammon safety bicycle