Early Motoring Interest - Albert Charles Hills (1965-1952) E...

Hammer

£220

Early Motoring Interest - Albert Charles Hills (1965-1952) Early Motoring Pioneer - a collection of items relating to AC Hills c1880-1910, comprising: a bound scrap album titled in gilt 'Cycling Reminiscences - AC Hills,' and filled with newspaper articles and personal photographs from his various cycle tours, which all appear to be Penny Farthing cycle tours, including: Tour In Kent Easter 1866 with the Brixton Ramblers Bicycle Club, 'The First French Tour Of The Brixton Ramblers Easter 1887,' including an original laid-in route card, an 'Annual Club Feast' 1894 menu, 'At Frensham Ponds - Hants - Whitsun 1888,' Brixton Ramblers Championship Surbiton July 23rd 1887 (a Penny Farthing race), 'The Brixton Ramblers' Tour In France 1887,' and other entries. Approx 2/3 full, with the latter half of the album relating to early motoring interest articles. Along with an early believed c1910/1920 typed loose-leaf manuscript written by Hills and titled 'Early Motoring Days,' and goes into great details regarding the very early days of motoring and his personal experiences. a humorous typed 'Christmas Card,' poem note on Hills-Martini Ltd headed paper and signed in pencil, and some later printed matter. Consigned from the family. A unique and historically important archive of early penny farthing and motoring history.