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Timelines
Thirty-three chronological marque histories, built event by dated event from the archive’s own articles. The 1930s is the busiest decade on record here — 111 dated events — which says as much about French constructeur culture as it does about the archive.
Timelines
33
one per marque
Dated events
766
every one sourced in an article
Span
1810–2025
Peugeot to Brooks England
Busiest decade
1930s
111 events across 27 marques
Featured timeline · A new deep-dive each week
Holdsworth History: A Timeline of Key Company and Product Events
Born from postwar scarcity, Holdsworth grew from a home-based cycling-apparel venture into one of the great names in British lightweight bicycles, a…
Open the Holdsworth Timeline- 1914Historical Backdrop. World War One ravishes Europe, making cycling apparel difficult to obtain and leaving matters of sport…
- 1939Historical Backdrop. Populist momentum for Holdsworth's products carries into World War Two, helped by a diversified product line…
- 1964Notable Death. Margaret Holdsworth passes away.
- 1982Product Catalog. A Holdsworth range catalog is issued in 1982.
Two centuries of the lightweight bicycle
Events per decade — darker is busier, and every cell opens its marque’s timeline. The twelve earliest-founded marques are shown first; the leftmost column gathers the two events from before 1850.
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Alphabetical, each with its span, event count and decade-by-decade rhythm
