Penny Farthing Bicycle Pin Badge - Pewter

Product Description: This Penny Farthing pin badge is made from lead-free pewter and is supplied on a pin with separate clasp. The Penny Farthing was a type of bicycle with a large front wheel and a smaller rear wheel. The pin badge is mounted on an information card, on the reverse is historical information about the evolution of transport.

Information: The earliest form of transportation used horses and donkeys domesticated c.4000 – 3000 B.C. By the 1st century AD the Romans had built a vast network of roads across the empire used by horse drawn chariots and carts to transport people and goods. Since these early beginnings new forms of transport have been invented like bicycles, trams, buses, motorbikes and cars.