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Cycles
Stockton-on-Tees
Updated 5.10.2010
      Involved in the cycling trade since the late thirties, Jack Taylor Cycles actually was made up of three brothers producing a wide range of hand built bicycles. The last bits of frames with all brothers involved were made in the early 1990's, but in their hey days, the Taylor brothers exported many bikes, especially tandems, to the USA. Their filet brazing as well as lugged construction is highly respected.
     Here is a wonderful film clip that celebrates
the life and work of the Taylor Brothers.

JACK TAYLOR
serial numbers
An informal gathering
of serial numbers to
ascertain approx.
manufacturing dates
Updated 5.10.2010

Cycling Magazine 1962
test & specs
of a Jack Taylor bicycle.

Joel Metz's web page
devoted to Jack Taylor cycles

Right: Jack himself in his racing days
Center: The Taylor brothers, Jack, Ken and Norman
Right: March, 1962, article in Cycling

Right: Early 1970s advert

Jeff Groman's curved seat tube 1950s bike.

Original owner Colin Brooker's 1951 fixed gear bike.

Steve Benson's early 1950s Mixte frame...(10 pictures)

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#3090
Purchased new 1957 by Les Stevenson and still owned today. Size 24" , 531 tubing, tourist frame with lugs, color black & in need of restoration but in original condition.

#4646 Alex Moll's 1963 Jack Taylor Tourist
(Only wear items, tires, spokes, cales etc., were replace. Otherwise original...)
Photos courtesy Bob Freeman, Elliot Bay Cycles, Seattle WA

Ken Cowan's Track or Path Racer #5448

Ken Toda's lugless touring frame #5939
(full bike pics once he gets it built up!)

Robert Johnson's bill of sale for his Jack Taylor bicycle in 1973

David Martinez' beautiful curved tube bike.
(Photos by Ted Williams!)

James Macdonald's triplet tricycle (no. 8230, Feb. 22, 1985)
said to be the only one ever made and for the
son of the Chief Cashier of the Bank of England.