I can trace my family tree back to William Campion born c.1783 Nottingham who set up as a frame maker in Loughborough. His grandson, William, founded the Campion Cycle Company in 1892 after previously being a manufacturer of industrial knitting, welting, sewing machines etc as well as domestic (hand-operated) sewing machines.
Following his death in 1895, his son Edwin William Campion ran the company and after re-organisation in 1896 was joined as a director by Ernest Frederick Hutchinson, Ernest was the son of Rowland Hutchinson who later founded the Surgical Hosiery Company Ltd. on Russe