Early ABC's

Just a few pictures of early bikes I found in my folders not sure if they have been seen before I also have some on glass slides I would like advice how to transfer as photos Dell

Never seen these pictures of a 1915 model but I would be interested in detailed scans if possible.
I doubt you have access to glass plate scanners but I did hear it should be possible to scan glass plates on common flatbed scanners and then invert the colours of the picture on a pc.
In the new year i can give it a try and then let you know how it works

Not sure where you are, we are in West Wales, have specialist scanning equipment for glass slides/35mm/microfilm/fiche etc in our Archive Room, be very happy to scan for you.
Paul
Internal Fire Museum of Power

Hi Paul that would be very useful I actually live in Kent but could post,not sure if I am allowed but my contact is derek.harwood75@gmail.com

Dell's pictures turned out to be quite interesting.
These were likely taken at the end of 1914 after A.B.C. moved to Hersham.
By the end of November Bradshaw had put together the first three bikes for the 1915 season and he was going to test them on the roads of Cumberland and the Lake District together with Lees and either Emerson or Oliver. Being away for an entire week must have been like a holiday for them.
No other bike was built until January and even then only 2 came to light. apparently there were issues obtaining several steel stampings and this resulted in a redsign of the machine to use steel castings of larger dimensions instead of the stronger stampings.

Anyway, the photoshoped pictures look quite stright now and show both models A.B.C. was producing that year:

• the Model A with all features attached

• the model B with TT handlebars, no kickstart and no footboards