Vol 20, No 4
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The Cycle Age and Trade Review 20, no. 4 (1897). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-cycle-age-and-trade-review/vol20-4/
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Articles in this issue
- Hugo Bilgram confirms he has filed suit against the Gleason Company for infringing his bevel gear-cutting machine patents, and warns he will pursue all users of the Warren machine if he wins.
- The Buffalo Bicycle Manufacturers' Association appeals for financial support in its fight against Gormully & Jeffery's patent on the forward-curving 'ram's horn' handlebar design.
- London correspondent reviews a second British bicycle exhibition, noting new construction methods and models.
- Professor Carpenter of Cornell objects to having his preliminary experimental remarks on chainless bicycles publicized as definitive conclusions by the trade press.
- Editorial comment on salvage in buying and the public's indifference to makers' marketing costs, the proposed removal of the 35 per cent import duty on cycle goods and the export board's January 19, 1898 meeting, the Rev. T. Corwin Watkins and the Columbia, and the demand for unguaranteed tires.
- Reprinted from the North American Review, an argument that the union label is merely an instrument of organized labor to compel manufacturers to submit, offered to makers troubled by union demands in bicycle factories.
- Technical analysis of the materials and construction methods used in pneumatic bicycle tires.
- Will Overman experiments with mud on a Victor chain, declares himself anti-chainless, and defends the Pope and Overman alliance with the department stores, while Fred Ensworth of the tube mill is outdone by a cycle journal proprietor he goes to meet at a railroad junction.
- Latest United States bicycle patents, including B. F. Wheeler's three-layer saddle tree for the Wheeler Saddle Co. of Detroit and Lavigne's combination pedal with rat-trap and rubber foot rests.
- Advice to cycle shopkeepers on dressing show windows, including an inwardly rising platform and the dangers of overcrowding and dirty glass.
- Simple, tried apparatus for saving a busy repairman's time when mending inner tube tires.
- A general manager lectures members of the Hy Grade Club on the need to leave the old rut and conduct business by proper methods.
- Overview of import duty rates on bicycles in various foreign countries and their effect on American exports.
- Technical article explaining the mathematics and engineering principles behind bevel gear design for chainless bicycles.
- Brazeless tube joints by T. Kendrick & Son of Birmingham and by J. Whitehead, and J. P. Frankey's lever-driven chainless machine from Argentine, Kansas.
- 1898 models and prices from makers, including the League Cycle Mfg. Co. of Milwaukee's single-movement handlebar lock, the Sterling Cycle Works' one grade at $75, and the Brown-Lipe Bi-Gear.
- Reports on members of European royal families who have taken up cycling.
- C. W. Miller of the Thistle Cycling Club, Chicago, wins the Madison Square Garden six-day race with 2,093 miles 4 laps, ahead of Rice on 2,026 miles 5 laps, and the final scores of all fourteen starters are tabulated.
- Short notes on racing men and tracks, including Nat Butler's record-breaking year, Charles River Park's twenty-one meets and Earl Kiser's winter road work.
- Jacquelin, aided by an electric triplet, defeats the Welshman Tom Linton in a paced match over one and five kilometres at the Velodrome du Parc des Princes, Paris.