Comments on: The Metropolitan Machinists’ Company https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/#comment-1447220 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:01:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190370#comment-1447220 Wonderful but if only more cyclists would use the Harrison’s Thrilling Alarm! I’m fed up of silent cyclists coming up behind me as I walk my local pavement-less country lanes.

]]> By: Richard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/#comment-1447186 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:30:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190370#comment-1447186 I like the cyclist wallet in tweed, and the rifle clip.

]]> By: Gail FARROW https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/#comment-1447141 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:54:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190370#comment-1447141 Thanks very much for this article. Absolutely love those graphics …… how wonderful cycling must have been back then!

]]> By: JS https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/#comment-1447140 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:49:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190370#comment-1447140 Amusing to see this, as I have just been rereading Arthur Ransome’s “The Big Six”, in which an inflator is an invaluable clue to solving a mystery!

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/#comment-1447122 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:55:42 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190370#comment-1447122 Greetings from Boston,

GA, wow, what an interesting array of cycling apparatus from the turn of the century. I particularly liked the assortment of horns and bells, the variety of lamps, the capes, and cycling waterproof gaiters. Who knew?

Beautiful drawings too.

]]> By: Kenneth Sherwood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/#comment-1447116 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:49:06 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190370#comment-1447116 What a joy to read. Some names remain familiar today, many have faded away. So many of the accessories are needed today. Lovely detailed illustrations from a time before printing photos was the solution to display a product

]]> By: Christina Gregoriou https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/17/the-metropolitan-machinists-company/#comment-1447112 Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:09:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=190370#comment-1447112 These are such fantastic drawings/illustrations. They would make lovely posters.

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