W. H. J. Grout

William Henry James Grout (1839–1915) was a pioneering inventor and manufacturer of bicycles. He patented the Grout Tension Bicycle in 1870 which introduced several innovations including hollow forks to save weight, rubber tyres for a better ride and adjustable spokes which could be tensioned to align the wheel.^[1] He also devised a portable version of the penny-farthing, whose front wheel could be dismantled into four sections for carrying.^[2]

References

^ Wiebe E. Bijker (1997), Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs, MIT Press, p. 35, ISBN 9780262522274
^ David V. Herlihy (2006), "Portable Bicycles", Bicycle: The History, Yale University Press, p. 314, ISBN 9780300120479

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Name	Grout, William Henry James
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Short description	Bicycle inventor and manufacturer
Date of birth	1839
Place of birth
Date of death	1915
Place of death