Dursley Pedersen bicycle, c. 1910. From the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. It was restored in 1985 and 350 individual parts were nickel plated. B1265.
How do you ride this bike, where’s the seat? This rare gentleman’s bicycle in our collection takes its name from its Danish inventor, Mikael Pedersen, and the Gloucestershire town in England where it was made. Pedersen was an engineer and farm machinery inventor who arrived in Britain from Denmark in 1893 and was employed by R. A. Lister, the engine and cream separator manufacturer in Dursley, Gloucestershire.
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