The Tricyclists' Indispensable Annual and Handbook
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Henry Sturmey. The Tricyclists' Indispensable Annual and Handbook. 1883. cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/books/the-tricyclists-indispensable-annual-and-handbook-h-sturmey-1883/
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- Sturmey’s preface, dated The Cyclist Office, Coventry, 19 May 1883, to this third edition: the first edition sold out in three weeks and a second, of double the quantity, in as many months. He promises plain, accurate and fair descriptions, and a comparative view at the end of the prices, weights, widths and principles of driving and steering of each machine.
- Section I. Sturmey describes the rapid growth of tricycling and its trade (Coventry has nine firms making little else), notes that the tricycle is older than the bicycle, and compares the two on speed, stability and stowage. He then discusses design: the Bath chair and Coventry patterns, front against rear steering, single against double driving with balance gear, rotary against lever action, handle position, wheel base and brakes.
- Section II opens by reviewing the parts common to tricycles, beginning with the wheels: rubber tyres, hollow and solid rims (the Club hollow felloe, the Invincible, the D.S.H. rim), spokes, hubs, cranks and pedals.
- Plain, coned, roller and ball bearings compared, with the Apollo and Club dust-proof ball bearings illustrated; Sturmey holds that bearings should be of hard steel and aim at the least friction.
- The hayfork and loop frames, T forks, heads and backbone: Sturmey confines himself to the parts common to several makes, since frames differ chiefly from machine to machine, and notes that weldless steel tubing is used only by the largest makers.
- Ways of reducing a tricycle’s width to pass a doorway: divisible, folding and telescopic frames (Lee and Stodart’s patent and a wheeled folded machine illustrated), judged on the width reached and rigidity when running.
- Springs for seats, from the flat bicycle-pattern spring to the elliptical, combination, Arab cradle and suspension forms, with seat rods and adjustments; Sturmey stresses that a spring must suit the weight of the rider.
- Cushioned pan seats, suspension seats (one with bail illustrated), air seats and saddles, including the Centaur shifting saddle, and who each suits.
- Handle patterns for tricycles: the spherical, pear-shaped and elliptical grips, and ordinary, celluloid, ventilated and adjustable handle rods.
- Steering arrangements: the bicycle handle for central-driven machines, the Bath chair type, rack and pinion, eccentric, quadrant and double steering, with the Leicester thumb steering illustrated.
- Levers and chain wheels (up-and-down against rotary motion): lever forms, hand levers, rotary action and cranked axles, chains, bands, intermediate wheel gear, clutches, balance gear and power and speed gears, including the National differential axle and the Rapid hill gear.
- Brakes in three classes, tyre, ground and hub, with Sturmey’s seven points to look for (ready application, power, gradual action, safety, simplicity, reliability, lightness), and band brakes, holders and back pedalling.
- Foot-rests: the plain plates fixed to hayfork frames, the knob rods on front-steering backbones, and adjustable hinged rests held flat by rubber bands or springs.
- Section II closes with the accessories: wrenches (Challenge, Yankee), oilcans and lubricators, tool bags and valises, bells and alarms, lamps (Eddystone), distance registers, a wheel washer, tyre clips and tricycle houses.
- Section III, headed with a full description of upwards of 250 machines. Sturmey surveys the trade: close on a hundred firms, twenty of them making only tricycles; Coventry has twenty makers and about eighty varieties, Birmingham a dozen, London a dozen makers and six proprietary agents, with Wolverhampton, Leicester, Nottingham, Maidenhead and two American makers. He explains that machines follow in alphabetical order, with his own road trials.
- Manchester Tricycle Co., Manchester. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £19 19s. Remarks: A sound, strong, front steering double driver, with no very special features.
- James Beech, Wolverhampton. Front steering; double driving by balance gear. Price £15. Remarks: A neat machine at a very low figure for a front steering double driver.
- A. H. Ward, Smethwick. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12. Remarks: An ordinary machine.
- English Cycle Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Novel brake application. Price £20. Remarks: This machine is a rear steering double driver, of somewhat better design than usual.
- English Cycle Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £18. Remarks: A soundly constructed machine of the usual type.
- English Cycle Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £14. Remarks: A rather smaller machine than the last, and more suitable for ladies’ use.
- Warman, Laxon & Youett, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving, with clutch gear and patent chains. Price £16 16s. Remarks: A very good open-fronted two-chain double driver.
- Bicycle and Tricycle Supply Co., Wolverhampton. Front steering. Double driving. Price £16 10s. Remarks: Not having seen this machine I cannot well speak as to its merits.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving, by balance gear. Price £25. Remarks: Formerly known as the Challenge No. 6, this machine has been thoroughly overhauled and re-designed, as well as re-christened.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Front steering for two riders. Double driving with balance gear. Price £31. Remarks: A first-class sociable in every way. Is well built, well finished, and sound in every detail.
- J. Harrington and Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with ratchet gear. Price £20. Remarks: A strong easy running machine, driven by two chains, which drive the through axles, the ends of which drive the wheels with ratchets.
- Harrington & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £18.
- Blenheim & Son, Surrey. Front steering. Double driving, with clutch gear. Price £18. Remarks: A front steerer, driving both wheels by separate chains. Is decently made and a fair article.
- Hill & Morton, Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £18. Remarks: A new introduction. Vertically built, and has a powerful brake.
- Hill & Morton, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 10s. Remarks: An open fronted rear-steerer of the ordinary type.
- Arrow Tricycle Co., London. Front steering. Double driving, with balance gear Variable speed for hill work. Lever action. Price £23. Remarks: This machine is quite different from last year’s Arrow in every respect. The Arrow variable power levers drive by means of straps off discs a la Omnicycle, which discs actuate a balance gear and through this the wheels.
- St. George’s Foundry Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Left-hand steering. Two speeds. Price £18 18s. Remarks: A single driver, which has two speeds for hill work and the level. The feet may remain stationary when descending hills, and the machine may be driven backwards equally as well as forwards.
- St. George’s Foundry Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Two speeds. Price £21. Remarks: This is a well built, strong machine, with several good points. It is vertically built, and the two speeds are simple and effective in action.
- William Soper, Reading. Front steering. Bicycle handles. Double driving when running straight. Two speeds. Price £17 17s. Remarks: This machine is totally different to any other, both wheels are rigidly driven, both backwards and forwards, and in turning corners one is freed by moving a handle in connection with a sliding clutch.
- A. Gwinnett & Co., Wolverhampton. A bicycle-type frame with a hinged cross-bar carrying two small rear wheels on a sprung rod; 48in. to 50in., price £10. Sturmey notes that a machine of this pattern, built by John Keen with the rear wheels close together, won the 1880 Tricycle Championship and was named the Kara Avis.
- C. Snow, London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16 16s. Remarks: A soundly built machine, fairly light and handy. Well positioned.
- C. Snow, London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £15. Remarks: The same as the last, but with chain gear and back wheel brake.
- Laxton & Simmons, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £17. Remarks: A soundly-built machine of the ordinary type. Strong and handy.
- Morris Bros., Cardiff. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16. Remarks: A sound machine of the usual type.
- Morris Bros., Cardiff. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving, with clutch gear. Vertical action. Price £18. Remarks: A vertically built rear steering double driver, of fair quality and neat appearance.
- Morris Bros., Cardiff. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £21. Remarks: A well built and neatly designed front steering double driver; will make a good mount for anyone.
- Morris Bros., Cardiff. Front steering. Double driving, with two chains and clutch gear. Price £21. Remarks: A sound, vertically built, front steerer, driven with two chains, like the Devon. It runs steadily and well.
- Morris Bros., Cardiff. Front steering. Independent double driving. Price £25. Remarks: A steady running front steering sociable, with open front to each rider, independent driving and clutch action to the pedals, which may thus be used as footrests or intermittent strokes taken.
- The Caroche Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. May be used as a single or double. Double driving, with balance gear in both forms. Price £26. Remarks: The converting arrangement of this machine is simple and ingenious. The balance gear and chain are in the middle, and by taking out a pin which connects the two axles and one which connects the fore part of the frame, the machine is taken in half.
- Caroche Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving by balance gear. Intermediate wheel gear. Price £18. Remarks: A remarkably easy-running machine, built with fair vertically and of sound material.
- Caroche Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Intermediate wheel gear. Price £14 14s. Remarks: An easy running, open fronted, single driver. It is neatly made, and the brake is exceedingly good for this class "of machine.
- Caroche Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 10s. Remarks: A sound machine of ordinary type, at a very reasonable figure. A machine for ladies is built on the same lines, but with 40in. wheels, at £1 less.
- W. Lewis, Wolverhampton. Direct. driving. Both large wheels used for steering purposes. Price £12 10s. Remarks: The rider sits on the backbone, and drives direct upon the axle. To steer he leans to whichever side he wishes to turn; this throws the backbone over, and pushes the outer wheel round.
- Centaur Cycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £17 17s. Remarks: A very well built machine of the ordinary type, has ball bearings throughout.
- Centaur Cycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Single driving. Rear steering. Price £15 15s. Remarks: A sound machine, slightly heavier than the No. 1, and with plain bearings in place of balls.
- Centaur Cycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Riders placed tandem fashion, one behind the other. Remarks: This is a first-class machine of the tandem type. Both riders drive by means of separate chains actuating one balance-gear.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Open front. Double front steering. Central driving Lever action. Folds for stowage. Price £23. Remarks: One of the earliest successful tricycles in the market; it has been much improved of late, and is now lighter, faster, and more rigid than it ever was before.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Price £18. Remarks: This is a strong, soundly built machine of the common pattern, with sundry improvements in detail.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Folding for stowage. Price £19 10s. Remarks: This is easily folded, but when so, the wheels do not run parallel. It was one of the earliest folding machines in the market, and when running is an ordinary single driver.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Built for use of ladies and youths. Price £10. Remarks: A sound machine of the ordinary type, suitable for the use of youths or ladies.
- A. Markham, London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 12s. Remarks: An ordinary single driver.
- A. Markham, London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Folds for stowage. Remarks: An easily folded single driver, of sound material.
- The Charnwood Tricycle Co., Loughborough. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £13 10s. Remarks: Sent out complete in crate. A fairly built, sound machine of the ordinary type, with no especial features.
- The Charnwood Tricycle Co., Loughborough. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16 10s. Remarks: Carefully built, and fitted with ball bearings all over. A very good machine of its class.
- Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving, with two chains. Price £22 10s. Remarks: One of the best exponents of rear steering in the market. It is beautifully made, and highly finished.
- Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear, in both forms. Convertibility from a double to a single machine, and vice versa. Remarks: This is a beautifully constructed machine, and is convertible into either a single or double machine at will, being a front steering double driver in both forms; in the single form being a a ordinary three-track balance-geared machine.
- The Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Double-driving with two chains. Folds for stowage. Price £25. Remarks: The machine is beautifully made throughout, and has the usual peculiarities in action of its class, whilst by the folding arrangement the turning of a couple of screws enables the machine to be at once folded into a narrow space, and wheeled when folded, the wheels remaining parallel.
- The Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. For two riders. Price £30. Remarks: A very finely built side-by-side sociable, is light, rigid, and fast.
- The Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12. Remarks: A soundly built machine for the use of youths and ladies. It has no special features, being an ordinary rear steering single driver.
- Henry Clarice, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £14. Remarks: This is a sound, well-constructed machine of the usual open fronted variety.
- The Pope Manufacturing Co., Boston. Price £37 10s. Remarks: This machine has just been placed on the American market. It is machine-made throughout, so should be a good thing, more especially as the lines of the last year’s “National” have been taken on which to build it.
- Thos. Moore, London. As a Double. As a Single. Double front steering. Open front. Independent double driving. Collapsible into a single machine. Two tracks in each form. Price £25. Remarks: This is a most extraordinary machine, being built so that by lowering one seat and turning the pedals back against the frame one half can be telescoped into the other.
- William Lewis, Wolverhampton. Front steering. Double driving with one chain. 'T. Price £16 10s. Remarks: Soundly constructed. One of the cheapest front steerers in the market.
- D. Rudge & Co., Coventry. Easy convertibility. Compactness. Two tracks as a s'.ngle machine. Double steering in both forms. Independent double driving. Price £26 10s. Remarks: This machine is more readily converted from one form to another than any other in the market, and will go into a smaller space.
- Coventry Phœnix Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving by balance gear. Cranks set at quarter section, to avoid dead points. b. Price £26 10s. Remarks: Strongly built, and run3 well. The brake is powerful, and the set of the cranks in quarter sections gets over the dead point, and gives a steady continuous run.
- Coventry Phœnix Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving by balance gear. Open behind for convenience in pushing. Price £20 5s. Remarks: This is practically the same machine as the No. 1 in running and general detail, but the stays are placed one on each side, so as to give freedom to the legs when walking behind and pushing up hills, the usual central back stay being very much m the way, and extremely awkward.
- Coventry Phœnix Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £20. Remarks: This is soundly put together, and will drive both wheels equally well either forwards or backwards.
- Coventry Phœnix Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving, with balance gear. All clear behind. Price £20 5s. Remarks: This is the same as the Nos. 1 and 2, but has tubular frame and only one safety rod, which is placed on one side for convenience when walking.
- Coventry Phœnix Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering; for three riders, all facing front, and all working. Double driving by balance gear. Price £30. Remarks: The third rider is placed in the exact centre of the machine, behind the two front riders, the power being connected by a chain wheel fixed in the middle of the crank, which is driven by the chain wheel and endless chain, worked by the back rider, the cranks and pedals being exactly the same as in a bicycle.
- D. Budge & Co., Coventry. Open front. Double steering. Single driving. Stability with narrowness. Central gear. Two tracks. Price £21. Remarks: Although so narrow, this machine runs very steadily and firmly. It makes but two tracks and runs with great ease, the action being fully vertical.
- D. Budge & Co., Coventry. Open front. Double steering. Two tracks. Single driving. Base of stowage. Price £20. Remarks: This machine has all the advantages of the last, but is rather heavier, owing to its construction, and may be used by ladies as well as gentlemen, which cannot be done with the No. 1 very well.
- Warman, Laxon & Youett, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £15 10s. Remarks: A strong, open fronted machine. This was one of the first machines built on these lines.
- Warman, Laxon & Youett, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Unequal wheels. Price £15 10s. Remarks: A strong soundly built machine, of the now rather uncommon, unequal wheeled variety.
- The Zephyr Bicycle and Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £18 10s. Remarks: A sound strongly built machine, of the best materials, containing good work throughout.
- The Zephyr Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving, with balance gear. Excellent brake. Price £20. Remarks: A sound, reliable, well built machine of the now popular “Salvo” pattern. It is well suited for all kinds of work, and the action is well arranged.
- Wolverhampton Manufacturing Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £10.
- o. P. Dalby, Leeds. Front steering. Double driving with clutch gear. Lever action. Hand and foot motion. Price £21. Remarks: I have not yet been able to see this machine, as it has but just been placed on the market.
- J. P. Dalby, Leeds. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Reducible for stowage both in length and width. Price £20. Remarks: This is a new introduction, and I have not seen it yet, but the inventor is erecting large works in Leeds for its manufacture.
- Birmingham Small Arms Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving. Price £16 16s. Remarks: This machine is made throughout of best materials and by the most improved machinery on the interchangeable system, and cannot be surpassed for quality.
- The Birmingham Small Arms Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £18 18s. Remarks: Like the last, a beautifully built machine. Drives both wheels forwards but not backwards, and pedals form instant footrests.
- Desideratum Bicycle Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 12s. Remarks: A fair, ordinary machine at the price.
- W. Lewis j Tempest Works, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Price £12 10s. Remarks: A fair strong machine for the money, of very much the ordinary pattern.
- St. George’s Foundry Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Two speeds. Price £21. Remarks: A well positioned, soundly constructed high-class double driver, with hill-climbing gear of a very simple and effective nature, and “ all the latest improvements.”
- Hill & Morton, Coventry. Front steering. Independent double driving. Convertible into single or double machine. Price £23. Remarks: This is a new introduction, and has only just been completed. It appears to be strongly built, though of course will have to stand the test of time.
- Manchester Tricycle Co., Manchester. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Hand and foot power. Price £21. Remarks: The action of this machine is the same as for an ordinary machine for the feet, but the arms are worked somewhat like pumping with a handpump, pulling against the pedals, and so utilising all the power of the rider for propulsion.
- Manchester Tricycle Co., Manchester. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Auxiliary hand power. Price £21. Remarks: The leading feature of this machine is the addition of the hand apparatus as an auxiliary power for hill work or against the wind.
- Centaur Cycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Convertible for use as a single or double. Double driving with balance-gear in both forms. Two tracks as a single machine. Remarks: This was the first convertible tricycle ever made, and has now perfectly vertical frame, double driving in both forms, the same wheels used in each, and many other minor improvements added since its introduction.
- Zephyr Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Two speeds for hill work and the level, and feet may be kept stationary. Price £18 18s. Remarks: This is a well made strong machine, combining speed on the level with power at hills, the arrangement being fully effective, one side wheel dri/ing for power, the other for speed.
- Carey Bros., Dublin. Open front. Central driving. Double front steering. "Lever action. Price £18. Remarks: The power is applied more from the loins than in any other tricycle, the hands doing little more than guiding.
- W. Lewis, Wolverhampton. For two riders, one riding d la bicycle and steering with the front wheel, the other using lever action. Price £17 5s. Remarks: The earliest machine of a tandem nature.
- Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. For two riders sitting tandem fashion. Independent double driving. Intermediate wheel gear. Price £24. Remarks: Strongly and soundly built. This was the first successful tandem style machine, and as a double machine is the lightest in the market.
- Lubricative Packing Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Powerful hand and foot lever action. Ratchet double driving action. No dead point. Price £26 5s. Remarks: This is a very powerful action, and is accomplished by two pedal levers or two manual levers, or by both together.
- South London Machinists’ Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with ratchet gear. No chains or cog wheels. Price £20 15s. Remarks: The driving action is peculiar, and the machine appears to be decently put together and likely to take well in some quarters.
- Henry Patrick and Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £21. Remarks: An open fronted single driver, got up in good style.
- Thos. Smith & Sons, Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Price £16 16s. Remarks: This machine has the pedals well down below the rider, and is got up in very taking style.
- J. Blenheim & Son, Surrey. Front steering. Open front. Double driving with steel bands and clutch gear. Variation of power. Price £20. Remarks: I have not seen this machine yet as it has only just been placed on the market, but it appears to have many good points, the variation of power amongst others, which I am told is effected at the will of the rider whilst in motion, the gearing beingto any power between 52in. and 30in., and whilst there are no dead points, any length of stroke can be taken; the pedals a ice still when going down hill, and the feet can be brought to any position for starting.
- W. Gwinnett & Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £16. Remarks: A fair ordinary machine.
- South London Machinists’ Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 15s. Remarks: An ordinary machine.
- St. George’s Foundry Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Two speeds. Convertible to either single or double. Price £26. Remarks: A strongly built sociable convertible. It has been completely altered since its. first introduction at the Stanley show, and as it is only just complete in its new form I cannot say more of it at present.
- Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Unequal wheels. Intermediate wheel gear. Price £17 17s. Remarks: This was one of the earliest successful tricycles, and formed a model on which many were built.
- Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Intermediate wheel gear. Price £17 17s. Remarks: A well built, reliable and trustworthy machine, like the last, but with equal in place of unequal side wheels.
- J. Devey & Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £14. Remarks: A well-built machine of the ordinary type, at a reasonable figure.
- J. Devey and Co., Wolverhampton. Front steering. Bicycle action. Central gear. Single driving. Price £12. Remarks: This has only just been introduced. It steers with bicycle handles on the Bath chair principle, the rider is well over his work and has the gear central.
- Settle & Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £21. Remarks: A. beautifully constructed machine throughout of the most approved pattern. Vertical action, adjustable handles, balance gear, &c., &c.
- Thos. Hough, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 10s. Remarks: A fair article at the price.
- Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16 16s. Remarks: A soundly constructed reliable machine, of the ordinary type. It was on one of these machines the first 50 miles tricycle championship road ride was won.
- Smedley & Green, Nottingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £17 17s. Remarks: A well constructed, vertically positioned machine, of the usual single driving type.
- Midland Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving, with two sets of gear wheels. Reversing clutch. Price £20. Remarks: A strongly built machine.
- Midland Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Price £15 15s. Remarks: An ordinary machine.
- Midland Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Clear front to each rider. For two riders. Price £18.
- Henry Patrick & Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £17 10s. Remarks: A good machine of the ordinary rear steering type.
- South London Machinists’ Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £19 5s. Remarks: Ten per cent, discount is allowed off the price of this machine.
- South London Machinists’ Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £17 15s. Remarks: A neat front-steering double driver, built with fair verticality a nd of sound material.
- Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Intermediate wheel gear. Folding for stowage. Price £21. Remarks: This is a well-made machine, and the easiest and quickest folded tricycle in the market. By taking out a taper pin the whole can be drawn together and wheeled into any 18in. doorway, thus taking up less space than a bicycle.
- Centaur Cycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. For four riders. Remarks: The above illustration shows the machine as at first made, since when it has been much improved in making the frame more vertical, and in providing a specially strong balance gear, driven by two chains on the same drum, each actuated by a pair of riders.
- James Beech, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £11 10s. Remarks: A very low-priced machine of the ordinary cut.
- James Beech, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £7 10s. Remarks: Built small for ladies’ use. An exceedingly low-priced article.
- Metropolitan Machinists’ Co., London. Double front steering. Central driving. Divisible for stowage. Price £18 10s. Remarks: This is a small machine, highly geared up, and has several good points, notably that of central driving and rotary action.
- Albert Phillips, Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £13. Remarks: A fair machine of the usual open-fronted type. No special features.
- Mercury Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Double driving with ratchet gear. Central gear. Bicycle action. Price £16 16s. Remarks: This is a new introduction this year, and has taken wonderfully. The action is perfectly vertical, and the running easy.
- Mercury Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Double driving with ratchet gear. Central gear arranged for ladies’ use. Price £16 16s. Remarks: This is really on the same lines and principle of construction as the last, but the plan of the frame and arrangement of the gearing admits of its use by both sexes.
- The Zephyr Bicycle and Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Two speeds for hill work. Price £24 10s. Remarks: This is a sound, well-built, and vertically positioned front steering double driver, with the addition of a very simple and effective two-speed gearing.
- T. Smallwood & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16. Remarks: A soundly constructed machine of the usual open fronted type, with no especial features.
- T. Smallwood & Co., Coventry. Price £18. Remarks: A lighter and better finished machine than the last, but built on the same lines.
- Samuel Lloyd, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £10. Remarks: A very low-priced machine of the common pattern.
- Howe Machine Co., Glasgow. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Two speeds for hill work. Price £18 18s. Remarks: A strongly built machine of the open fronted class, which drives one wheel for power, the other for speed.
- Howe Machine Co., Glasgow. r. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Pedals used -as footrests. Price £17 17s. Remarks: This is a soundly built rear steerer of the ordinary type, but has an arrangement whereby the chain wheel is thrown out of gear with the driving wheel at will for descending hills; thus it drives both forwards and backwards equally well, and allows the pedals to be used as footrests also.
- Howe Machine Co., Glasgow. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £23. Remarks: A sound built front steerer of the most approved type. It is vertically positioned, and the steering rod is arranged so as to give an equally clear front on either side the steering wheel.
- Humber, Marriott & Cooper, Beeston. Double front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Bicycle action. Price £23. Remarks: This is one of the lightest and fastest machines in the market. It is beautifully finished, and constructed in the best possible manner.
- Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Built for racing. Price £28 10s. Remarks: A very light, yet strong (for its weight) machine, of the most approved front steering type.
- Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £24. Remarks: One of the finest front steerers at present on the market. It is vertically built and beautifully made, and may be thoroughly depended on.
- Zephyr Bicycle & Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. No chains or cog wheels. Price £20. Remarks: A very strong and reliable machine, which has no chains to stretch and can be driven equally well both backwards and forwards.
- H. M. Pashley, Sheffield. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £18. Remarks: I have not yet inspected this machine, so cannot say with confidence what it is like, but I believe it to be a sound and genuine article.
- John F. Walters, London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £21. Remarks: A well sent out tricycle, of the open fronted rear steering class. No especial features in detail.
- W. H. Upton, Isle of Wight. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16 16s. Remarks: A sound, easy running strong machine of the usual type.
- W. H. Upton, Isle of Wight. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 12s. Remarks: Sound and neat, at a low figure.
- A. H. Alldridge, Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Direct action. Folding for stowage. Price £19 19s. Remarks: A machine of very simple construction, which runs easily, and can be stowed away in a very small space.
- Denne & Co., Sittingbourne. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16. Remarks: This is a genuinely built machine, and is supplied on easy terms of £2 10s. down and 5s. weekly.
- James Beech, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £7 10s. Remarks: This is about the lowest priced machine in the market.
- Thos. Timberlake & Co., Maidenhead. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Built for ladies’ use. Price £14. Remarks: A soundly built machine, with an exceedingly good feature in the perfect security of the tyres and the efficiency of the brake.
- Coventry Machinists’ Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Built for ladies’ use. Price £22 10s. Remarks: A light, beautifully-constructed machine, built specially for ladies’ use.
- G. W. Ash & Co., Portsmouth. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £17 17s. Remarks: A sound, well constructed machine in every detail, with a novel and effective brake application and seat adjustment.
- G. W. Ash & Co., Portsmouth. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12 12s. Remarks: A sound machine of the ordinary type, with no especial features.
- St. George’s Foundry Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Single driving. Price £15 15s.
- Leicester Tricycle Co., Leicester. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Bicycle action. Central gear. Price £20. Remarks: This is one of the most peculiar tricycles in the market, and has many good points. It is a balance-geared double driver and front steerer, and the rider is placed almost in a standing position over his pedals.
- Leicester Tricycle Co. Station Yard, Leicester. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Central gear. Bicycle action. Folds for stowage. Price £22. Remarks: As rigid when in running order as the rigid machine just described. It has all the same peculiarities, with the additional advantage of the folding frame.
- Burnett & Co., Leeds. Single driving. Narrow frame. Price £16. Remarks: This is built d la Coventry Rotary, but in place of the double steering the front wheel only is actuated by the steering rod, the rear wheel acting like a castor and following fairly well in its track.
- James Plowright, Lynn. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16 16s. Remarks: A strongly built, sound machine, with no especial features.
- Arthur Markham, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Central gear. Price £21. Remarks: This is a very light front steering double driver. It is quick in action, handy, neat, and easy running, and although not as highly finished as some is soundly constructed and well put together.
- Arthur Markham, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Clear frontage for each rider. Price £26. Remarks: This is a very light sociable, the frame being exceedingly simple, and ingenious. I have not tried it yet, but should fancy it to run easily and well.
- Mercury Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £13 13s. Remarks: Made of good material throughout. A sound machine with no special features.
- Starley & Sutton, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £17. Remarks: The first machine to be built on these lines, its success caused others to copy, with the result that this pattern is the most common in the market.
- Starley & Sutton, Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £20 10s.
- Starley & Sutton, Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £26. Remarks: This is one of the most successful sociables in the market. It is extremely rigid and steady in running, especially at speed and down hill, owing chiefly to the rudder being so far ahead.
- Metropolitan Machinists’ Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with single chain. Price £17 15s.
- Metropolitan Machinists’ Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £15.
- A. D. Bricknell & Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Lever action. Alternate driving, length of stroke at will. Price £19 19s. Remarks: This is a last season’s novelty, and is well and neatly made. It drives each wheel alternately, or both together, but cannot be driven backwards.
- G. Hughes, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Left-hand steering. Price £12. Remarks: A sound article at the price.
- Alpe Bros., Hull. Front steering. Double driving. Central gear. Price £20. Remarks: An exceedingly simple, light and neat machine. Appears strong and soundly built.
- W. T. Eades, Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. No chains or cog wheels. Double driving by means of ratchets. Price £18 18s. Remarks: This machine is well made and light.
- National Bicycle & Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Single driving. Price £12 12s. Remarks: A single driver, built as a front steerer, at a very low figure.
- National Bicycle and Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Direct action. Frictional double driving. Price £10 10s. Remarks: This machine drives direct on the cranked axle, and places the rider high. The back wheel brake is applied by a chain and grip lever, and whilst one wheel is fast to the crank shaft, the other is driven in all straight running by a frictional cone.
- National Bicycle & Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Direct action. Frictional double driving. Price £21. Remarks: This is an exceedingly light machine, and as it has the same bearings as a bicycle, and drives direct upon the wheels, it runs very easily and climbs hills well.
- National Bicycle & Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Independent double driving. Price £20. Remarks: This is about the simplest Tandem Sociable in the market, and may briefly be described as placing a male rider astride the backbone of a rear steering tricycle, with the lady occupying the front seat.
- National Bicycle & Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with ratchet gear. Back pedalling clutch. Price £18. Remarks: This machine is a front steerer, and drives the through axle with one chain, the axle propelling both wheels with clutches, whilst for back-pedalling purposes a separate handle brings a coned friction clutch into action with one wheel, and the machine is driven backwards.
- Highbury Machine Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £15. Remarks: A machine of the common type, with no especial features.
- Highbury Machine Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £19 19s. Remarks: A remarkably easy running machine. Built with fair verticality and of sound material.
- Bricknell & Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Folding for stowage. Lever action. Two speeds at will. Price £22. Remarks: This machine has quite a host of good features, and has only just been perfected. The addition of balance gear makes it very much steadier than with alternate driving.
- Bricknell & Co., London. Front steering. Independent double driving. Lever action. Variable stroke and speed. Price £31 10s. Remarks: I have not tried this machine yet, but take it to be a thorough success. The low wheels should give great steadiness and stability, whilst the instantaneous adjustability of the handles is a great point {See Advertisement.
- J. Stassen & Son, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. 'Central gear. Telescopes for stowage. Price £21. Remarks: This machine is beautifully and substantially made.
- E. Gadsby, Northampton. Front steering. Unequal wheels. Price £14. Remarks: This is a strong well made machine, and the arrangement of the steering rod makes it exceedingly open in front, for a front steerer.
- E. Gadsby, Northampton. Open front. Rear steering. Price £14. Remarks: This machine, when made for ladies’ use, has 40in. wheels, geared down to 36in., and is fitted with chain guards at the same price.
- Nottingham Tricycle Co., Nottingham. Double front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Telescopes for stowage. Bicycle action. Price £24. Remarks: This is a beautifully built machine in every way, and is constructed on the well-known lines of the Humber, with the additional advantage of the increased facilities for stowage afforded by the telescopic arrangement.
- Nottingham Tricycle Co., Nottingham. Double front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Bicycle action. Adjustable for size. Telescopes for stowage. Price £24. Remarks: As fine a machine in every way as the other, with the advantage of adjustability, making the same machine do for different persons.
- Bicycle & Tricycle Supply Association, London. Front steering. Double driving with ratchet gear. Lever action. No dead points. Variable stroke. Price £26 5s. Remarks: This is a very powerful machine at hill work, and when built with large wheels is capable of very considerable speed.
- Broadbent Cycle Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving, both backwards and forwards, with clutch action. Stationary pedals. Spring frame. Price £16 16s. Remarks: This machine combines both forward and backward automatic double driving with free pedals, whilst the steering head is fitted with a spring on which the backbone end rests, to avoid the vibration arising from the small wheel.
- Samuel Cotterill, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £9. Remarks: A very low-priced machine.
- Thomas Moore, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Central gear. No chains or exposed gear wheels. Price £21. Remarks: This machine is very taking in appearance, and is soundly and thoroughly well made in every detail.
- Thos. Moore, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Central gear. No chains or exposed gear wheels. Automatic hill gear. Free pedals. Price £24. Remarks: This is identical with the last, with the addition of the Orbicycle hill-climbing gear, with which the rider only has to reverse the motion of his feet to put the power gear into action.
- Bicycle and Tricycle Supply Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £15.
- Hickling & Co., Maidenhead. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £18. Remarks: A sound, well-constructed, reliable machine.
- Hickling & Co., Maidenhead. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £15 10s. Remarks: A strong, sound machine of the ordinary type, with a very good point in the security of the tyres.
- H. J. Pausey, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Remarks: This maker has always made sound and reliable bicycles, and this machine, which is new this season, seems likely to add to his reputation rather than otherwise.
- H. J. Pausey, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £21. Remarks: A light machine, built specially for racing purposes.
- Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. High frame. Price £23. Remarks: This is a very finely built machine, vertically positioned and fitted with reliable brake and “ all the latest improvements.” It is one of the lightest roadsters of this class machine in the market, and runs easily and well.
- Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £26. Remarks: This machine is specially built for racing, and I have found it run with remarkable ease and freedom.
- Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Right-hand rider steers. Price £30. Remarks: This is a well designed sociable, having both the steering and the brake under the control of the rider on the right-hand side of the machine, thus placing the lady on the side of the machine farthest from danger in case of collision with horse traffic.
- Henry Patrick & Co., Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £14 10s. Remarks: A plain ordinary machine.
- Lloyd Bros., Harborne. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Large steering wheel to avoid vibration. Price £20. Remarks: This machine is built soundly and well, and brings a new principle into play, viz., the use of three wheels of nearly equal size, by which vibration is lessened in a considerable degree, the weight being borne equally by all three wheels.
- Lloyd Bros., Harborne. Open front. Rear steering. Independent double driving with clutch gear. Price £30. Remarks: Vertical action and open front, with steady steering, make this a very pleasant and easy machine to ride.
- Safety Cycle Co., Bedford. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £21. Remarks: This machine is soundly built, and of neat light form. It is also made as a foldpr, with telescopic axle, at an extra charge of 30s.
- St. George’s Foundry Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Two speeds for hill work. Divisible for stowage. Left-hand steering. Price £17 17s. Remarks: This machine has many peculiarities which will prove recommendations according to individual tastes and circumstances.
- Samuel Lloyd, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £12. Remarks: A low-priced machine of the common rear steering type.
- Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £20. Remarks: A first-class machine in every way, utilising Starley’s gear by special licence.
- Royal Machine Manufacturing Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £22. Remarks: This is a thoroughly well-constructed machine, made with the best machinery throughout, and of the best material.
- Royal Machine Manufacturing Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £17 17s. Remarks: A sound, genuine, well built and nicely finished machine of the rear steering type, with the steering wheel well behind for greater steadiness.
- Royal Machine Manufacturing Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £22. Remarks: This is the same in build and general quality as the last, but by the addition of an extra gear shaft, and Starley's balance gear, is made a perfect double driver whilst keeping its open front.
- Royal Machine Manufacturing Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Open front. Two tracks. Double driving with balance gear. Price £22.
- Royal Machine Manufacturing Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Independent double driving. Price £26.
- Zephyr Bicycle & Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. No chains. Price £18 10s.
- Starley Bros., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £20. Remarks: This is the well-known production of the late Mr. James Starley, A the father of the tricycle,” and the firm are now licensing several other makers to use the Salvo gearing.
- Starley Bros., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Tubular frame. Price £21. Remarks: This is a new introduction for this season, and is fully up to the times. The position is vertical, the safety rod at the side, the brake lever long and powerful; all parts adjustable, and the whole light and stiff.
- Thomas Timberlake & Co., Maidenhead. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £20. Remarks: A good machine. Made to order only.
- M. D. Rucker, London. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Steering with either hand. Price £18 18s. Remarks: The rider is placed well over his work, and can climb hills with facility. He can steer with either hand.
- M. D. Rucker, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £22. Remarks: This is fully vertically built, constructed with care and attention of the best materials, and can be relied on as a strong and trustworthy roadster.
- M. D. Rucker, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Open fronts and large rudder. Price £29. Remarks: This is a first-class machine, though but recently introduced. It is strong and well built, and designed with a view to steadiness and firmness in running, the rudder wheel being large and carried out well in front.
- D. Rudge & Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £20 10s. Remarks: A finely finished, well built machine of the front steering class. Properly positioned and easy going.
- Starley Bros., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £27. Remarks: This is one of the finest sociables in the market in its new form, which is a vast improvement on the old.
- J. Cox & Son, King’s Lynn. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £15. Remarks: A strong neat machine, of the rear steering type.
- Samuel Seed & Son, Blackburn. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £14. Remarks: A strong, sound machine of the usual type, at a reasonable figure.
- Warman, Laxon & Youett, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Independent double driving. Price £21. Remarks: A strongly built open fronted sociable.
- Sparkbrook Manufacturing Co. Ld., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Machine-built. Price £23. Remarks: The Sparkbrook Manufacturing Co. have purchased the plant, tools, and machinery of the tricycle branch of the National Arms and Ammunition Co., of Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and have engaged the same men to manufacture the machine, so that it can be depended on for equality with that of last year.
- Centaur Cycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £21 10s. Remarks: A sound, strongly-built handsome machine; has been much improved this season in a more vertical and lighter build.
- E. Gadsby, Northampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16. Remarks: This is a soundly built and reliable machine, with an excellent and peculiar brake. It contains sound materials and good work.
- Samuel Seed & Son, Blackburn. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £16 16s. Remarks: A soundly constructed machine. Specially built for finish and ease of running.
- Thos. Timberlake & Co., Maidenhead. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Remarks: Built with fair verticality. A sound and genuine article, with an excellent brake.
- Zephyr Bicycle and Tricycle Co, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. No chains or cog wheels. Price £20. Remarks: A strong and reliable machine. The driving action is effective and pretty, and the machine of the best quality in every respect.
- John Bullock & Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £14. Remarks: A soundly built roadster, of the regulation “ Meteor ” pattern.
- W. G. Lewis & Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £22. Remarks: I have not yet inspected this machine, but believe it to be a fair article.
- Maynard Harris & Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with two chains. Position alterable for hill work. Price £22. Remarks: A solidly constructed roadster in every sense of the term.
- Broadbent Cycle Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Spring frame. Price £12 12s. Remarks: A neatly built machine of the Meteor type, with arrangement for reducing vibration in the frame to a minimum.
- J. Parr, Leicester. Open front. Rear steering. Price £16 16s. Remarks: This machine is a good sound article of the ordinary type.
- J. Parr, Leicester. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £19. Remarks: I have not seen this, so cannot say more than that Parr turns out sound work, and that the machine drives both wheels both forwards and backwards, and allows the feet to remain stationary for descending hills.
- Adam Burdess, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Reverse motion of the feet. Two speeds for hill work. Non-liability to tilt. Price £24 3s. Remarks: This machine, although a rear steering single driver, has many good points, notably that,vhen ascending hills 5the feet are moved backwards, and all tendency to tilt the back wheel is removed.
- The Bicycle & Tricycle Sale Rooms Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Reducible for stowage. Price £25. Remarks: A finely finished, well built machine of the front steering class. Properly positioned and easy going.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Double driving by balance gear. Convertibility into single or double forms. Front steering in single form, back steering in double. Double driving in both. Price £35. Remarks: This machine is well made, and has several novel and useful features. In its single form it is an “ Apollo ” front steering double driver.
- Hickling & Co., Maidenhead. Front steering. Double driving with clutch gear. Central gear. Telescoping for stowage. Price £21. Remarks: This was the earliest telescopic tricycle made, as well as being the first central geared front steerer,.
- Thos. Timberlake & Co., Maidenhead. Rear steering. Independent double driving. Price £20.
- S. B. Allport, Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £18 18s. Remarks: A good machine, of the ordinary pattern. Machine-made throughout, and very carefully and accurately fitted.
- Warman, Laxon & Youett, Coventry. Front steering, Double driving with clutch gear. Price £16 16s. Remarks: A soundly constructed, neat front steerer, of a handy and useful type.
- Thresher and Sims, London. Front steering. Double driving with clutch action. Two' speeds if desired. Price £21. Remarks: This is a lightly built, soundly constructed front steerer, with full vertical action and other good points.
- Thresher and Sims, London. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £18. Remarks: A most vertically built rear steerer, carrying out the principle in the fullest degree.
- Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Coventry. Remarks: This is a reliable and strongly built roadster, fit for all sorts of general work. It is of the now most popular pattern, and the Salvo balance gear ds used by special licence.
- Overman Wheel Co., Hartford, Conn. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Machine-built. Price £29 3s. Remarks: This machine is built on the lines of the National and Premier combined, and is constructed by the Ames Sword Co. for the Overman Wheel Co., the tubing, bearings, and most of the other parts being imported from England for the purpose.
- Toledo Steel Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Price £20. Remarks: A soundly built, reliable, front steering double driver.
- Toledo Steel Co., London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Two tracks. Price £20. Remarks: Fully equal to the last in every respect, but made with two tracks in place of three. Is a perfect double driver, both forwards and backwards.
- Toledo Steel Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £14 10s. Remarks: A strong and reliable machine of the ordinary type, with no especial features.
- H. Weatherill, Manchester. Open front. Direct action. Double driving with friction clutches. Price £17 17s. Remarks: This machine places the rider high, and whilst it drives both wheels equally well both forwards and backwards, allows the pedals to be used as footrests at will.
- D. G. Weston, London. Front steering. Double driving with balance gear. Central gear. Price £21. Remarks: This machine attracted much notice at the Stanley Show. It is well built, and of graceful outline; the gear is central, the action vertical, and it is at the same time a front steering double driver, as well as a very light machine.
- A. Phillips, Birmingham. Open front. Double driving with two chains. Drives backwards and forwards equally well. Price £21. Remarks: This machine is well built throughout.
- Albert Phillips, Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Price £18. Remarks: An easy running, soundly constructed machine, with no very special features.
- The Pentacycle of W. Lewis, Tempest Works, Wolverhampton: a five-wheeled machine carrying five persons, each driving a wheel, on a tubular frame like the Duo’s. Sturmey calls it the only machine of its kind and imagines considerable speed could be got from it.
- Hand-propelled tricycles for those who have lost the use of their lower limbs, either partly or wholly: the Bedford, the Dreadnought (cross-referred), the Favourite Rotary, the Hand Lever Excelsior and Hand Lever Volante, and the Velociman.
- G. Wootton, Bedford. Front' steering. Partially open front. Unequal wheels. Lever action. Price £15. Remarks: This machine is intended for those who have lost the use of one leg, or who have one stiff.
- Manchester Tricycle Co., Manchester. Open front: Steering with the knees. Double driving with two chains. Rotary hand levers. Remarks: This machine is powerful anl strong, and is easily manipulated. It is intended for those who have quite lost the use of their legs but still have good strength in their arms.
- Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Unequal wheels. Price £18 18s. Remarks: This has a footboard in front of the frame ends, and powerful hand levers actuate \the crank shaft, which is placed in the usual position of the pedal shaft, and this turns a spur wheel, which acts on the driver with an endless chain.
- Toledo Steel Co., London. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with two chains. Price £18 18s. Remarks: The action of this is very similar to that of the last. It can be made with auxiliary foot motion as well at an extra charge.
- Singer & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Double driving with balance gear. Hand and foot power. Price £25. Remarks: One of the best and most powerful hand-propelled machines in the market. It has been ridden one hundred miles in the day by a rider over 60 years of age.
- Tricycles for children and youths, from the Cambrian No. 2 and Child’s Advance to the Wellington, Youth’s Excelsior, Mercury, Meteor and Premier, priced from about £3 to £10.
- Morris Bros., Cardiff. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary action. Price £9 10s. Remarks: A very complete and soundly constructed article, for use by children of 12 or 14 years of age.
- James Beech, Wolverhampton. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary action. Price £3 10s. Remarks: A very low-priced tricycle.
- Mercury Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary action. Price £3 10s. Remarks: Sound and strong for children of six years old or thereabouts.
- Starley & Sutton, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary action. Price £6 6s. Remarks: One of the soundest and best machines for children under eight years of age in the market.
- Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary action. Price £4 4s. Remarks: A remarkably good and sound little machine for the price, suitable for use by youngsters from 4 to 8 years of age.
- Howe Machine Co., Glasgow. Front steering. Single driving. Lever action. Price £6 10s. Remarks: This is one of the best children’s machines made. It is a front steerer, and has hall bearings to the front wheel, whilst the frame is of weldless steel tube.
- Caroche Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Single driving. Lever action. Price £4 4s. Remarks: An easy, taking, and useful tricycle for children of ten or eleven years of age and under.
- Caroche Tricycle Co., Coventry. Front steering. Single driving. Lever action. Riders placed back to back. Price £5 5s. Remarks: A very cheap and useful article. Is light, handy, and easily stowed away.
- Warman, Laxon & Youett, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Rotary action. Price £8. Remarks: As complete a machine as any at the price, and the makers do a considerable trade with them.
- W. Asbury & Co., Birmingham. Front steering. Single driving. Lever action. Price £6 6s. Remarks: This is strong, easy action, and light, and at the same time extremely simple. It is also made with 24in. wheels at £4 4s., and in a very complete style with 40in. wheels for adult riders at £14 14s. oaiu'j.
- Laxton & Simmons, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary action. Price £3 3s.
- Laxton & Simmons, Coventry. Front steering. Rotary action. For two riders. Independent double driving. Price £10. Remarks: This is one of the best sociables made for children’s use, and is strong and useful. It is fit for children up to fourteen years of age, and is safe and steady going.
- National Bicycle & Tricycle Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary motion. Direct action. Price £3 3s. Remarks: An easy driving, light, and simple machine for children under eleven years of age.
- George Townend, Coventry. Front steering. Lever action. Price £3. Remarks: There are a large number of these in use about Coventry. It was the first machine to take largely with children.
- George Townend, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Intermediate wheel driving. Price £5. Remarks: This is a neat little machine, and is made in sizes from 26in. to 34in., ranging in price from £3 7s. to £5 10s.
- Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary motion. Price £10. Remarks: A soundly built useful machine, with no especial features. Suitable for use by ladies of light build, or by youths of fifteen and under.
- Mercury Machinists’ Co., Birmingham. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary motion. Price £8 8s. Remarks: A strong, sound machine for youths’ and ladies’ use. No special features.
- Starley & Sutton, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary motion. Price £10. Remarks: This is one of the soundest 36in. machines made, the makers making a special feature of it.
- Hillman, Herbert & Cooper, Coventry. Open front. Rear steering. Single driving. Rotary motion. Price £8 8s. Remarks: Soundly constructed of good material. Is strong and reliable, and fit for use by youths and young ladies from ten to fifteen years of age.
- A Comparative View of Prices, Sizes, Weights, Widths, and Principles of Driving (opens in a new tab)Tables of all the machines arranged by price within standard patterns, opening with sociables (Four-in-Hand, Tandem, Cheylesmore Convertible, Apollo Sociable), and giving price, driving-wheel diameter, running size, weight, width, the method of driving (S.D., D.D., C.D., A.D.) and of steering (R.S., F.S.) and the page where each is described.
- Section IV. Care and adjustment of a new tricycle: setting the saddle height, adjusting handles, taking up a slack chain that slips a tooth, wheel bearings and the steering joints and rudder head, trueing wheels, re-cementing a loose rubber tyre, and choice of oil (sperm or neat’s-foot, Tringham’s ruby oil, paraffin) and lamp oil.
- Thirty numbered rules for riding: even pressure on the pedals, dropping the heel, steering steadily without sudden twists, leaning over on corners and slackening speed, back-pedalling on descents, taking stones and gullies, trimming lamps, courtesy to wayfarers and walking through freshly laid stones.
- Points to weigh when buying: the depth of one’s pocket, avoiding firms of shaky reputation, stabling room and machine width, the roads to be ridden, a double driver for heavy work, front against rear steering in hilly country, the rider’s weight and age, brake power, luggage capacity and simplicity. Sturmey offers to advise readers through The Cyclist.
- How to make a machine rideable after common breakages: broken spokes (twisting or cording them), loose tyres, and a bent or broken steering rod (a lashed stick guided by cords); damage to frames, forks, cranks and axles needs an expert.
- Section V. A dated list of tricycle race results for 1882 from April onward, at Godalming, Coventry, Leicester, Exeter, Brighton, Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Widnes, Southport, Grenoble and Bordeaux, naming winners such as M. J. Lowndes, T. R. Marriott and W. H. Casley with handicaps and times.
- A table of the fastest recorded tricycle times by distance, for path and road, starting with M. J. Lowndes’s mile and running to a 24-hour ride by J. Hawkins, jun.
- From The Tricyclist of 15 September 1882: M. J. Lowndes of Coventry (Congleton B.C.) won the fourth 50-miles road championship in 3h 47m 40s, nearly 27 minutes inside the previous record; T. R. Marriott of Nottingham was second and five others also finished under five hours. It describes the start at Ganwick Corner near Barnet, the officials, a table of 25- and 50-mile times and remarks on the ride.
- From The Tricyclist: the amateur path championship at the Crystal Palace on 14 October 1882, run in heats of five miles, in which Liles beat Gaskell in the final by seven yards in 19m 3s; it covers each round, a remark on the race and Gaskell’s generous conduct over his protest.
- A table of tricycle clubs giving name, headquarters, captain, honorary secretary, uniform, number of members and date formed, from Albert, Alton, Atalanta and Belsize to Cardiff, Caledonian, Cheylesmore, Glasgow, Liverpool and London.
- Alphabetical list of tricycle makers with their addresses and the machine each makes, from A. H. Alldridge’s King of the Road and S. B. Allport’s Transport to the Zephyr Tricycle Co.’s Coventry Zephyr.
- Novelties and illustrations that arrived too late for their place: the Cambrian adjustable spring, Broadbent’s non-vibrating spring head, Lamplugh’s Eclipse saddle, the Dalby folding frame, adjustable handles and lever gear, the Premier sociable steering gear, the Monarch stirrup pedals and clutch, the New Merlin and Englefield clutches, the Alaska balance gear and the Leader adjustable seat and brake.
- English Cycle Co., Cradley Heath. Front steering, double driving with balance gear, 46in. driving wheels. Price £18. Sturmey has not yet seen it and says the gearing is described in another column.
- J. Harrington & Co., Enamel Works, Much Park Street, Coventry. An attachment rather than a machine: a 30in. wheel with its own cranks and chain, geared to 52in., that turns any front-steering single tricycle into a tandem-style sociable. Price £7 10s.
- A not yet marketed experimental machine that Sturmey describes in general terms: an open-fronted frame steered by both front wheels, lever driving by bands and ratchets making it an alternate driver, and a frame sprung at the front to reduce vibration.
- Sparkbrook Manufacturing Co., Much Park Street, Coventry. Front steering, two chains and balance gear, 50in. driving wheels, weight 145lbs and width 63in. Price £30. Remarks: one of the finest sociables on the market, with the crank shafts set before or behind the frame at the riders’ will.
- A. Rumsey & Co., 22 Shirley Street, Southampton. Front steering, double driving with ratchet gear, central gear, 48in. driving wheels. Price £21 10s. Sturmey says it is only just introduced and he has not seen it.