Bicycle Tag of bike

Something to do with them having a Josper grill, as invented by Pere Juli and Josep Armangué in Pineda de Mar, Barcelona.
When there's nothing in the photo to go on, like with the new one, I think clues have to be a bit more generous. Good to see the sun's out wherever it is.

It’s my first tag difficult to pitch it right.

I’d say it’s always sunny down south but that might lead to some north/south confusion.

It's a bottom bracket factory.

I require more generosity.

Right about the Rover, less so about the Mk 2 Cortina.
PB Cresta was only ever produced as a 4-door saloon or 5-door estate. Never as a 2-door.
Would you agree that the car in front of the Commer van is a 2-door?

It’s a building on the site of a former works. The 3rd run by an inventor who has been almost completely overlooked by history in favour of engineers who did the big stuff.
Without him you wouldn’t be able to just bolt a bike together.

Or possibly have brakes like mine. Can you press on with this or should I post more?

Circling it but feeling screwed.

Assuming Archytas of Tarentum didn't have a factory in London.

Here is mine

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I was on the right track after all.

Going round in circles here with three names.
But I still cannot nail it.
Apologies for @-ing you.

Rule out Bramah and Brunel they claimed the credit for his work , Whitworth was taught by him.

It's findable now.

It would be a 580 mile walk for me to tag this long range spot

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More people should know about him, quite agree. Excellent tag.

Old: Lambeth North Station

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New: R.I.P. Rob

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Classic Beagle. You've got about an hour to post the new one and then it's a free for all.

To explain mine

Henry Maudsley 1771-1831 “a founding father of machine tool technology “ according to Wikipedia was an amazing engineer who just got stuff to work.
He made the first useful screw cutting lathe which allowed thread forms to be standardised, before this nuts and bolts were made as a pair and weren’t interchangeable.
He got the Hydraulic press to work leading to your brakes today.
Needing to measure accurately he developed smooth flat surfaces and a micrometer that could measure to 0.0001”.

Other inventors got the credit for their pick proof locks or tunnelling shields but Maudslay actually worked out how to make them.

His workshop was on the site of Lambeth North Tube.

Can I ask the Custodians of BTOB for a critique of my first tag.
I think I started too obscure, the clues worked in my mind but I already knew the answer, should they be easier to google?
How should I pace further clues?

Classic Beagle. You've got about an hour to post the new one and then it's a free for all.

How is a picture upload fail 'Classic Beagle'?

And why does he have an hour before it's a free-for-all? It's a free-for-all without time limit, no?

I enjoyed your tag - my little history lesson for the day, as often delivered by BTOB.

Don't stress about the clues - seemed fine to me. If the tag isn't moving then ratchet up the clueage as necessary, as you did. Will's right though, tags with little or no visually identifiable aspects need more generous clues at the start.

The easiest clues are those that just point to the location and not to something that's background story to a location. In this case, the location as it currently is is also at least once removed from the subject you intended for your tag, as the building where he worked isn't there any more, and the current building doesn't have that association any more. That makes it harder to find something.

It really depends on how easy you want to make it. I'd generally recommend making it easier than you think it should be.

I'd recommend this book. It literally changed my life.

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I was mostly rudderless until you posted the picture of your lathe. Following which I ended up juggling with the names of Maudsley, Bramah & Whitworth.