Arthur Thomas Collier, St Albans Inventor, circa 1900

Reilloc Tyres under Tower Bridge, London

St Albans

A couple of months ago I posted this advertising post card for Reilloc Tyres. Geoff has now provided some additional genealogical information on the inventor, Arthur Thomas Collier who moved to St Albans in 1891/2. Interestingly Arthur had previously been a Congregational Minister, first in Cornwall, and then in Sydney, New South Wales, and it is not clear what led to him giving up the church and becoming an engineer!

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A Card with an unusual connection with St Albans

St Albans

This post card recently came up for sale on ebay - and I couldn't resist it. I needed to find why an extremely unusual advertising card had been published by the Alpha Trading Company of St Albans. 

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It turns out that the inventor of Reilloc Tyres lived in St Albans,  his son worked for the movie film pioneer Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, and the picture may be a still from a very early advertising film.

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