Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet, was a British businessman and inventor. He was a founder of the Raleigh Bicycle Company.
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Raleigh advert from 1940.
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Sturmey-Archer was a manufacturing company originally from Nottingham, England. It primarily produced bicycle hub gears, brakes and a great many other sundry bicycle components, most prominently durin
Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet
…manufacturer in the world and occupied seven and a half acres in Faraday Road, Nottingham. He lived at The Ropewalk, Nottingham. He also helped build up Sturmey Archer Gears. He wrote Cycling for Health and Points For Cyclists in 1913. In 1915 he was created a baronet of the City of Nottingham. He became a Fellow of the…
A Sturmey-Archer three-speed hub, the most common kind of Sturmey-Archer gear
An exploded Sturmey-Archer AW
The internals of a Sturmey-Archer FM four-speed, medium ratio, hub gear. It has substantially more components than an AW three-speed. FC, AF, AC, and ASC hubs are similar.
Sturmey-Archer X-FD front hub brake