Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Sport, Birmingham Motor Cycle Club, gold medal, awarded 1914, to E. Sidwell, "Open Passenger Machine Trial", winged Victory on motor cycle, rev. details engraved within wreath, 29mm, 9ct, 11.15gms, Chester Hallmark, maker F.J.P., extremely fine
In 1914 Ernest Sidwell of Coventry took out an American patent on an "Air-cooled Internal Combustion Engine used on Motor Bicycles". The son on William Sidwell, 132 Lower Ford Street, Coventry, he was killed on 15 September 1914, and is buried in the Vendresse British cemetery.
(200-250 GBP)