List of British name manufacturers bicycles

[9494arnold]

Quite a good source of Historic Makers is Classic Lightweights Website, it has British Page.

And the Veteran Cycle Club is a good source.

We don't have a list per se at the Museum.
We have index so if you hit us with a name we can usually respond, or find someone who can.

Often names change hands .
Classic Examples are Claud Butler and Holdsworth
Bates has had 3 or 4 owners , currently dormant (I think)
Baines used to be famous for the 'Flying Gate' design, currently made under agreement by TJ Cycles.
Many 'old' names are attached to imported mass produced Taiwanese Alloy frames these days.

Paul Arnold
National Cycle Museum.

[Sid Aluminium]

And to muddy the waters even more...

...there are cycle firms like Brompton, designed and manufactured originally and to this day in England. There are bikes like Strida, designed and once built in the UK, still in production but now sold to an Asian company (Ming Cycle) and manufactured in Taiwan. And there are brands like Bickerton, who once built a machine of their own design in the UK but have evolved into a local marketing arm of a foreign company, selling private label machines.

[amediasatex]

I think only late Holdsworth(y) frames were farmed out. They started as "real" builders. Some quite nice frames. By chance, I also have one of those - this is a 1982 Mistral. Now, of course, PlanetX own the brand.

I meant the other way, as in Holdsworthy built frames for many other people at one point. But yes later on it reversed, and now I think they're another one of those brands where the name got sold, and someone (Planet X?) is trying to revive it with various different products from elsewhere as a mix of re-branded catalogue stuff and limited production runs.

[Sid Aluminium]

The day when a manufacturer could make all the parts is long gone - I believe it was Raleigh who many decades ago had the facility to make just about every part.

You could spec' a machine in Japan and have every item and component sourced in-country. I ~think~ you could in Germany, but I'm not sure.

But to have every item and component manufactured in-house by the same firm in 2020, I believe you're off to China if anywhere.

[NUKe]

Walkers Champion made by my great grandfather in the 1920s, he built Track bikes and wheels with wooden rims for the track, Among his many other talents. I don't much else about it and the only thing I have is 1 decal.

[tatanab]

The thing is, we can all come up with obscure regional builders that probably only locals have heard of - here's 3 from wildly different parts of the country - John Spooner (Worthing), Ken Lazell (Essex), Dan Shotton (Bristol). John Spooner is the only one of those that I've not had a frame from although club mates had several.

We really need the OP to come back to explain what is wanted.

[9494arnold]

It's a long list

Flying Scott
Bob Jackson
Mercian
Roy Swinnerton
Dave Moulton
Percy Stallard
Viking
Jack Green
Jack Hateley
Major Nichols
Higgins
Hetchins
Lipscombe
Ephgrave
Sun
Tom Board
Paris
Condor
Dawes off the top of my head .

[foxyrider]

It's a long list

Flying Scott
Bob Jackson
Mercian
Roy Swinnerton
Dave Moulton
Percy Stallard
Viking
Jack Green
Jack Hateley
Major Nichols
Higgins
Hetchins
Lipscombe
Ephgrave
Sun
Tom Board
Paris
Condor
Dawes off the top of my head .

but a list of what?

[TrevA]

It's a long list

Flying Scott
Bob Jackson
Mercian
Roy Swinnerton
Dave Moulton
Percy Stallard
Viking
Jack Green
Jack Hateley
Major Nichols
Higgins
Hetchins
Lipscombe
Ephgrave
Sun
Tom Board
Paris
Condor
Dawes off the top of my head .

Hobbs of Barbican
Woodrup
Shorter
Langdale
Carlton
Barron
Pilgrim
Kevin Winter
Bates
Spa?
Blower
Barry Chick
Dave Yates
M.Steel
Freddie Grubb
Claud Butler
Falcon
Coventry Eagle
British Eagle
Paramount
MB Dronfield
Vernon Barker