![]() He instituted races to win public interest. It took him 2 months to make each velocipede, he was concerned to develop improvements: solid rubber tyres, ball-bearings, while maintaining quality and reliability. He sold it and made an improved version-bought by the same buyer. Thomas Humber, at that time by trade a Nottingham blacksmith, had built himself a velocipede based on a picture in a letter about the Paris-developed machine that was published in the English Mechanic magazine in late 1868. ![]() ![]() It all led to Humber becoming regarded as the aristocrat among bicycles. The reliability of his products arose from his high standards and emphasis on quality. Thomas Humber improved cycle technology through the independence of his thinking and his practical ability. By 1887, still under his day-to-day management, it was owned by a public listed company, Humber & Co Limited. Thomas Humber (1841–1910) founded a bicycle manufacturing business at Nottingham which moved about 1878 to Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
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