Enfield Cycle Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Transport equipment production Bicycle & components production
  • Transport equipment production Motor vehicle production
  • Transport equipment production Motorcycle & components production
  • Fabricated metal products manufacture Needle, pin & fish hook production

Notes:

Traced orings to George Townsend & Co Ltd of Redditch, established c1850s to make needles and fish hooks. Subsequently diversified into bicycle parts and then bicycles. About late 1880s acquired by Albert Eadie and R W Smith and renamed Eadie Manufacturing Co Ltd. Enfield, later Royal Enfield brand name introduced for bicycles in early 1890s. Eadie Co also made motor cars as Enfield Autocar Co Ltd. Bicycle manufacture hived off into Enfield Cycle Co Ltd later in 1890s. Motorcycles manufactured from c1901. Ceased production 1970 although brand name still used in India

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