Image ID: 08160

Boy on a tricycle in a garden to the rear of Harrison's premises

Carter Gate
Newark on Trent
England

There was a suggestion of c 1884-5 for the date of this picture, as that was the year that this tricycle was made, but the Eton style collar and straw boater suggest a date of late 1890's-1900. The photographer of this picture was William Percy Lowe Harrison. Mr Harrison became one of Newark's first motor enthusiasts and having been bitten by the automobile bug began to devote much of his spare time to developing this interest. By 1903-4 he had expanded his electrical engineering business on Cartergate into one of Newark's first motor garages becoming an agent for the Glasgow-based Argyll Motor Co Ltd. He also sold bicycles, forecars and continental models of motor car. He was also a keen amateur photographer and during the early 1900s took many fascinating photographs of the vehicles which he sold through his garage.

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