The Campion Cycle Company began early in the 1880`s, by William Campion. His son Edwin joined him at London Rd, and Roden Street. William died in 1895 after a career ranging from early textile machinery (jenny Lind 1870) to the bicycles, exporting all over the world. It is with William That Thomas Humber was a blacksmith around 1867. By 1897 Edwin had gone Ltd with a Frederick Hutchinson, who`s father had four mills, one being on Russel St. By 1889 they had there first powered motorcycle that evolved into a car by 1911. They continued production through the war, and with a M.O.D contract, stil
