A coloured illustration of three male figures gathered around a chalk drawing of a bicycle on the floor of a property - a typograph. The figures are wearing late Victorian attire. A workman’s bench behind them. Above, the following headline - They designed it in chalk. Illustration of a bicycle in a box in the bottom right. Text below and to the side of this relating to the history of bicycle manufacture at BSA. The company’s logo below this.

#CityOf1000Trades #BSA made bicycles from 1880 at the Armoury Road factory after making guns from 1861. The bicycle business was sold to Raleigh in 1957. Ref – LS 10/ B- 299/1 #LibraryofBham #bsa_bicycles