The Cycle Age and Trade Review, Vol 23, No 89
Articles in this issue
- Front-page lead on the American Bicycle Company combine: about sixty-eight of a possible one hundred ten option givers now know their plants will not be purchased, with the Lozier and Indianapolis chain companies, Monarch, and Ames & Frost dissatisfied, while Colonel George Pope counsels under "Opinions of Influential Men" that it will be eighteen months to two years before the concern runs smoothly and that advertising and selling will be concentrated at New York headquarters.
- News from Dublin about Volenite, Limited, a company producing Volenite, a material said to be indistinguishable from rubber and suitable for manufacturing bicycle inner tubes and solid cab tires as well as steam packing, at considerably lower cost than natural rubber.
- Report by S. Krausz, foreign representative of the Monarch Cycle Mfg. Co., on the extraordinary difficulties and methods encountered while selling American bicycles across Europe during a trip through Russia, Germany, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Hungary, and France.
- Editorial on the Export Exhibition to be held at Philadelphia in September, noting that the American Bicycle Company's formation has interfered with cycle-trade participation, that the directors have nearly filled the available space, and that thirty-two states and delegates from over three hundred chambers of commerce are expected at the accompanying international commercial congress.
- Descriptions culled from recent patent office reports, covering a tire of doubtful practical value by Clement Arthur Hill of Hull, Lamplugh's oscillating hub, and the Pedersen cantilever bicycle frame.
- Third installment of the series gathering manufacturer opinions on whether dealers should supply optional equipment, with makers including Sterling Cycle Works strongly disapproving of the current option system and calling for reform.
- Recurring feature giving a list of standard repair charges compiled by the Cycle Age from reports of bicycle dealers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, and Vermont.
- Racing results and club news including McDuffee's motor-paced mile in 1:28, Bald defeating Zimmerman by four yards in a long sprint at Newark, and debate over C.W.A./L.A.W. recognition at the Montreal international championships.
- Monthly motor-vehicle edition comparing public ideas of bicycles and motor vehicles, announcing the forthcoming Motor Age paper, and describing Henriod's carburettor-less motor, a theory of slow tire leaks through oxygen escape, and continuous-combustion motors.