It was listed for the following three years.ġ956 The Gadabout moped appeared, with a 49cc Rex engine, two speeds, spine frame and telescopic forks.ġ956 Tube Investments subsidiary the British Cycle Corporation was formed to take over and control its bicycle making subsidiaries in the Birmingham area, namely Armstrong Cycles, Brampton Fittings, Hercules Cycle and Motor Co, Phillips Cycles, and Walton and Brown the activities would be concentrated in a large factory at Handsworth large redundancies followed.ġ959 Added to the range was a Panda, a three-speed Gadabout and another with a 50cc Villiers engine.ġ962 The range was cut back to the Gadabout with either a Rex or a Villiers engine, but later in the year two new models appeared. It had a 49cc two-stroke engine mounted above the bottom bracket, chain-driven rear wheel, the petroil tank on the top tube and braced forks. ġ952 Operating company was registered as Phillips Cycles Ltd ġ954 Having previously been in the cycle business, the company entered the powered market late that year with a complete machine derived from a bicycle. Phillips and Co, manufacturer of bicycles and bicycle components, bought the Credenda Works and gave up its Birmingham premises.Ĭ.1920 Tube Investments AGM was told that Phillips, a maker of bicycle parts, had been acquired in the past year. John Alfred Phillips formed a partnership with Ernest William Bohle making brakes and pedals for bicycles.ġ908 The Birmingham firm of J. Phillips Cycles were makers of bicycles, bicycle parts and later motorcycles of Credenda Works, Smethwick, Birmingham.
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