The Cycle Age and Trade Review, Vol 23, No 97
Articles in this issue
- Report from an insider confirming that ninety percent of American Bicycle Company members are satisfied, that final property transfers have been recorded with preliminary certificates issued, and that the combine's policy will target below-cost price cutting rather than attack outside makers; also notes that instructions to close the Pope company's Detroit branch are being read as a sign the combine intends to shut all member branches.
- Account of Richard Garland, former Canadian Dunlop manager, who has obtained an option on the Dunlop Australian business and is floating a new company worth over eight hundred thousand dollars on the Australian public market.
- News that the Meiselbach company's New York branch has been ordered closed and its stock transferred to the Crawford branch.
- Letter from a Christchurch, New Zealand correspondent describing how the Dunlop company maintains its near-monopoly through undertakings with manufacturers rather than patents, faces competition from Palmer tires locally assembled on the Dunlop principle, and arguing there is a large opening in New Zealand for an American tire company willing to price below Dunlop and advertise and support agents directly.
- Racing results and club news from cycling organizations.