The Cycle Age and Trade Review, Vol 23, No 93
Articles in this issue
- Special telegram reporting that Spalding will be president of the American Bicycle Company following the final transfer of the last factory, with dummy directors set to elect officers formally that week.
- Report that R.B. McMullen is working to organize bicycle makers excluded from the American Bicycle Company into a rival combination with approximately one and a half million dollars in capital and three hundred thousand machine capacity.
- Report that the Soudan bicycle company has settled on Logansport, Indiana as its new manufacturing base after negotiations with the town for a building and cash bonus.
- Report that a fire at the rolling mill of the Albany Manufacturing Company destroyed forty thousand dollars worth of property and finished stock belonging to Gormully and Jeffery.
- Dispatches from Portland, Oregon dealers including W.T. Wallace of the Pope Manufacturing Company and Fred T. Merrill of the Rambler cyclery reporting excellent trade continuing into the fall, with buyers no longer holding off for cheaper prices now that the low-water mark in wheel prices appears to have been reached.
- Practical guide for retail bicycle dealers on converting shopworn and odd-lot accessory inventory into cash through targeted bargain sale promotions.
- Racing results and club news from cycling organizations.