Humber Limited was a British manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, and cars incorporated and listed on the stock exchange in 1887. It took the name "Humber & Co Limited" because of the high reputation of the products of one of the constituent businesses that had belonged to Thomas Humber. A financial reconstruction in 1899 transferred its business to Humber Limited.
Humber Limited
Safety bicycle, c. 1890
Postcard 1907
Humber France
Thomas Humber was a English engineer and cycle manufacturer who developed and patented a safety bicycle (1884) with a diamond-shaped frame and wheels of similar size. It became a pattern for subsequent machines. Humber made many other improvements to bicycles. About 1868 he founded Humber Cycles, the bicycle manufacturing business at Beeston, Nottinghamshire later owned by Humber & Co Limited.
Ordinary by Humber, Marriott & Cooper
Humber Cycles Beeston 2008 insignia high on the left front wall
Thomas Humber and T.H.Lambert on a Humber Tandem Tricycle, circa 1885
Humber Safety Bicycle The Science Museum