Hobbs
 

What is a Hobbs?


How does it differ from a Hobbs of Barbican?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbs_meter

I've only ever heard of Hobbs of Barbican. Is this a theoretical question or should we have some sort of context?

Two points:
1. He was really a stuffed animal. Little more than a figment of Calvin's imagination.
2. You spelled it wrong, too.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...s_Original.png

Well played Rudi :)

Thomas Hobbes and the Social Contract still sticks in my craw. Free will vs determinism, blah blah.

I think Calvin and Hobbes riffed off the philosopher actually.

Roy Hobbs? Character from "The Natural"

Hobbs?

My butler?

What's he got to do with this?

No, no, no,... you know Hobbs,... as in Hobbs bicycle, ... as in, there are two active threads on page one of the Forum,... THAT Hobbs. Or, is it Hobbs of Barbican? Or both, but how do they differ?

The earliest frames built by the Hobbs brothers were sold as 'Hobbs'.
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/avthobbs5-220.jpg
After that they were sold as 'Hobbs of Barbican' after their address. They kept that name when production restarted after WW2 even though they had needed to move premises.
see Hobbs of Barbican
and period material at Veteran-Cycle Club Online Library

Often owners refer to the bikes as Hobbs rather than the full name. I have done that (I have a 1946 Raceweight)