page_title: Humber Cycles
section_title: Ordinary or "Penny-farthing"
hierarchical_section_title: Humber Cycles / History / Ordinary or "Penny-farthing"
caption_attribution_description: English: A c.1890 Humber Safety bicycle, now in the collections of the Science Museum (London) as copied from their ObjectWiki.
context_page_description: Humber is an English brand of bicycle. Thomas Humber made himself a velocipede in 1868. From that time he built a substantial business in manufacturing tricycles and bicycles while continuously improving their design and construction. His products were so well-made and well-designed they were known as "the aristocrat among bicycles".
  Though Thomas Humber retired from the cycle business in 1892 and went on to other things his brand name remained a high valued trademark for more than ninety years.
context_section_description: Thomas's own design of "ordinary", now commonly known as a "penny-farthing", appeared in 1871 and not long after James Starley's metal ordinary. His first price-list contained a testimonial by Fred Cooper, a racing cyclist. Another racing contact was Thomas Marriott.
caption: Humber Safety Bicycle
  The Science Museum
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