National Cycle Collection

National Cycle Collection

The National Cycle Collection of Wales is a collection of bicycles through the ages established in 1997, and located in Llandrindod Wells, Wales, United Kingdom. It contains around 250 bicycles from 1818 to 2005, including a large collection of penny farthings and solid tyred safety bicycles, as well as cycling books, accessories and paraphernalia.[1]

The building and site was known as The Automobile Palace, a project of bicycle shop owner Tom Norton who bought the site in 1906 for his expanding business.[2] The building was initially completed in 1911 in an Art Deco style and then tripled in size, to the same standard, in 1919. It has received a Grade II* heritage listing, being "an exceptionally early grid-pattern steel-framed building surviving largely unaltered".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "In pictures: National Cycle Museum in Wales". BBC News. 14 September 2012. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
  2. ↑ "A pioneer Welsh motor business". Motorsport Magazine. July 1963. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
  3. ↑ "The Automobile Palace". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2017-08-31.

Coordinates: 52°14′19″N 3°22′27″W / 52.2386°N 3.3741°W / 52.2386; -3.3741

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