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penny-farthing
(redirected from Penny Farthing Bicycle)

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penny-farthing
Brit an early type of bicycle with a large front wheel and a small rear wheel, the pedals being attached to the front wheel


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Byline: Clare Hutchinson FOR 22 years he was a regular sight riding around his village on a penny farthing bicycle.
Staff at the building on Chamber Street, Edinburgh, had to pack away a whale as well as a penny farthing bicycle and a rare and very fragile collection of model ships.
Beamish Museum hosted Power from the Past, a display of early 1900s technology including Penny Farthing bicycles and horse-drawn carts.
 
 
 
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