Editing Walthamstow (section)

===Transport breakthroughs===
[[File:The Tramworks, Hatherley Mews, E17 (2).jpg|thumb|right|Former tramworks on Hatherley Mews dating to the 1880s; these converted stables were used for London's [[Trams in London|electric trams]] until 1952]]
In 1885, [[John Kemp Starley]], originally from Church Hill in Walthamstow, designed the first modern bicycle,<ref>{{cite book
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 }}</ref> and in 1892, [[Frederick Bremer]] built the first British motorcar in a workshop in his garden, at Connaught Road. The vehicle is on display at the [[Vestry House Museum]] in Walthamstow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britainbycar.co.uk/walthamstow/171-bremer |title=Bremer |publisher=Britainbycar.co.uk |date=2015-04-14 |access-date=2020-05-11}}</ref>

The [[LGOC X-type]] and [[LGOC B-type|B-type]] buses were built at Blackhorse Lane from October 1908 onwards. The B-type is considered one of the first mass-production buses. The manufacturing operation later became [[Associated Equipment Company|AEC]], famous as the manufacturer of many of London's buses. On 13 June 1909, A. V. Roe's aircraft took to the air from Walthamstow Marshes. It was the first all-British aircraft<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4471811.walthamstow-historic-celebration-av-roe-flight-next-sunday/|title=WALTHAMSTOW: Historic celebration of AV Roe flight next Sunday|website=East London and West Essex Guardian Series|date=2 July 2009 }}</ref> and was given the ominous nickname of the "Yellow Terror" but officially carried the name Avro1. Roe later founded the [[Avro]] aircraft company, which later built the acclaimed [[Avro Lancaster]].{{clear|left}}