Vol 20, No 3
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The Cycle Age and Trade Review 20, no. 3 (1897). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-cycle-age-and-trade-review/vol20-3/
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Articles in this issue
- Reports on patent litigation between Hugo Bilgram of Philadelphia and the Gleason Company of Rochester over bevel gear-cutting machinery, with Pope Manufacturing and its licensees taking sides.
- Pope Manufacturing arranges for Siegel, Cooper & Co. and Strawbridge & Clothier among others to sell Columbia bicycles, a controversial decision that alarms exclusive agents nationwide.
- The Simmons Hardware Co. of St. Louis acquires the entire bicycle and sporting goods stock of the E. C. Meacham Arms Co., to the relief of retail dealers who had suffered from Meacham's aggressive installment-plan undercutting.
- Reports from Denver that the Bicycle Repairers' Association's scheme of fixed repair prices and its refusal to supply free pumps is provoking a rebellion among a minority of members and the city's bicycle agents and dealers.
- Weekly leader on the opposing currents of the trade (chainless against chain-driven models, jobber consolidations in Chicago and St. Louis, makers selling low-priced machines direct to agents and to department stores), followed by notes on winter trade-in canvassing, faulty tire fitting and the option nuisance at Lozier's factory.
- An English company capitalized at $750,000 buys the British rights to Frank A. Wilmot's "clincher" tube, made by Wilmot & Hobbs Mfg. Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., with backing from the financiers who control Dunlop.
- Washington advice to American manufacturers on clearing goods into the Republic of Mexico, chiefly the need for an accurate description of materials and use on every article.
- A. C. D. Loucks, formerly of the National Board of Trade of Cycle Manufacturers, is set to develop the bicycle end of the Credit Clearing House of New York, an interchange of credit experience to check unsafe credits.
- Repairmen's department weighing the finances of a bicycle repair shop, with an annual expense estimate of about $2,600, the management of the shop and the treatment of customers.
- Descriptions of the newest chainless bicycle designs from various manufacturers preparing for the 1898 season.
- Technical discussion of bicycle mechanisms, manufacturing methods, and engineering innovations.
- Discussion of proposed measures to ease difficulties faced by American bicycle exporters in foreign markets.
- Reports on plans by American cycle manufacturers to establish factories in Germany to avoid tariff barriers.
- Trade notes opening with A. L. Garford's letter praising The Cycle Age, then the Waltham company's 1898 Orient line (triplets to septuplets, with the Saracen dropped) and other makers' 1898 models.
- Coverage of the six-day professional bicycle racing event.
- Full-page cartoon review of the week's racing news (Jacquelin and Arend, Chase of England arriving, the C.R.C. admitting professionals, Welch & Co. quitting racing, Bald after Michael's money) beside the Thanksgiving-night indoor meet at which Goodman and Eaton beat the French tandem pair, with summaries.
- Profile of Earl W. Peabody of Chicago, who eclipsed Zimmerman's record with 111 wins in the 1897 season and has the best claim to the amateur national championship.
- Jacquelin of France beats world champion Willi Arend in two straight heats in a match at Auteuil, Paris, while two Paris tracks go under.
- Rumour that "Happy Days" Will R. Pitman is to manage a new board track to be built at Berkeley Oval in New York.