Vol 20, No 12
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The Cycle Age and Trade Review 20, no. 12 (1898). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-cycle-age-and-trade-review/vol20-12/
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Articles in this issue
- Denver's Bicycle Repairers' Association has successfully established uniform repair rates across the city after a year of organizing, with the final holdout tire representative now agreeing to charge for repairs.
- Inventors and manufacturers protest the Reeves Bill, which would tax patented products and allow the government to condemn patents at cash valuation for public benefit.
- Investigation into the Toledo department store bicycle syndicate reveals that machines are being assembled at high speed from second-grade materials, with quality far below what the public expects.
- Hardware dealers across the country are organizing in opposition to bicycle makers who use department stores as agents, fearing destruction of the agency system.
- Surveys the 1898 trade outlook: the public dividing into buyers of cheap utility machines and buyers of high-grade fashion, and the bevel-gear chainless bicycle unsettling prices; a later item answers an English maker's complaint about the American tariff.
- Cleveland dealers hold a successful opening week for the 1898 season despite bad weather, with large attendance and varied opinions on the value of such events for future years.
- Advice to cycle dealers on promptness, courtesy and neat typewritten letters, with the warning to check your own copy-book before blaming a stenographer for delayed replies.
- Detailed analysis of the actual cost components in bicycle manufacturing, showing why list prices cannot be cut as deeply as newspapers suggest.
- Report on the growing use of acetylene gas lamps as bicycle lighting equipment and their trade potential.
- Illustrated inventions, among them J. H. K. McCollum's automatic tire inflator of Toronto, E. D. Thompson's air-cushioned seat post of Lawrence, Kan., and a quick-adjusting handlebar stem.
- Trade notes on makers' catalogues and fittings: the Ames & Frost Co.'s Imperial and Progress models, the Standard Machine Co.'s three-lamp tandem bracket and Winton drop-forged construction.
- Profile of the American cyclist who logged the greatest total mileage during the past season.
- Cartoon page with news of Harry Elkes beating Louis Gimm in a 25-mile paced race at Pittsburgh, calls to reinstate "The Plugger" Martin, and Teddy Edwards's attempt to ride a century every day of 1898 from New York.
- Report from St. Louis, Feb. 9, of the League of American Wheelmen national assembly opening with a Good Roads Day meeting and speeches by Sterling Elliott and others.