Deals on Wheels

Deals on Wheels

The companion volume to Jeff Wynch’s A Town on Two Wheels — Deals on Wheels — is now available.

In the final two decades of the nineteenth century the booming cycling community was served by a surprising number of inventors, retailers, repairers and manufacturers in Ilkeston. Deals on Wheels offers a complete Who Was Who of everyone involved in the local trade in the 1880s and 1890s.

Price £6.00 from our usual distributors.

Companion volume A Town on Two Wheels is the story of Ilkeston’s love affair with the bicycle in the years before 1900.

Price £10 – special deal if buying both books (just ask!)

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