The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 20, No 128
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
Buffalo branch stores of the American Bicycle Company quietly removed the A.B.C. name from their advertising in an apparent attempt to conceal their trust affiliation and recapture labor-class customers who had been boycotting trust-made goods.
- p. 3
A Buffalo department store sold 300 A.B.C. bicycles at $16.50 each despite a threatened injunction, while the new plant managers were powerless to stop the sale of machines purchased before their takeover.
- Repair Business Booming as Coaster Brakes Gain Popularity
Buffalo cycle repair shops were overwhelmed with work, with the surge driven chiefly by demand for fitting coaster-brake appliances to older bicycles as warmer weather arrived.
- Gaylor's Handlebar Suit Against Willis
Leonard B. Gaylor of Erie, Pa., filed suit against Ernest J. Willis of the Park Row Bicycle Co. for selling Kelly handlebars alleged to infringe on Gaylor's expander patent, with the American Bicycle Company possibly implicated as a licensee of the same patent.
- Toledo Bicycle Industry Employment Fully Restored
Favorable reports from all Toledo bicycle shops reached the Grinders' and Strappers' union, confirming that every union member in the city was back in employment.
- Trust Organ Threatened with Weeding-Out Process
The Cycle Age dismissed rumors of a merger with the Cycling Gazette and reported that the Bicycling World planned to relocate from Boston to New York, with trade opinion viewing the move as a step toward reducing the surplus of bicycle trade journals.
- Receiver Sought for Stockton Manufacturing Co.
Dr. Stockton applied for a court receiver for the Stockton Mfg. Co. in New York, with the veteran inventor believed to have lost heavily in the venture originally co-founded with George Warwick.
- p. 4
The newly adopted constitution and by-laws of the Minneapolis Cycle Trade Association were published in full, offered as a model that other local dealer organizations could adapt with few modifications.