BNI WOLVERHAMPTON
Villiers Engineering Co. Ltd., of Wolverhampton
In the 1890s John Marston's Sunbeam bicycles became extremely successful. From the start they had relied on high quality of production and finish. But John Marston was dissatisfied with the pedals on his machines, which he bought in. In 1890 he dispatched his son Charles to the USA on a selling trip but included in his instructions that Charles must discuss pedal engineering with Pratt and Whitney in Hartford, Connecticut and come back with a high class pedal and the machinery for making it. Whether or not he visited Pratt and Whitney and got machinery there is not clear but Charles himself said that the Villiers Engineering Co. was "the ultimate fruit" of his trip to the US.
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A modern view of todays Wolverhampton
City centre
The Wolverhampton BNI chapter was first formed in 2002 and was re-named during 2005 and is now known as "The Villiers Chapter", it was a members decision to rename ourselves as the Villiers Chapter in order to highlight one of Wolverhampton's success stories.
The Villiers Chapter - WOLVERHAMPTON
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