The Cycle Age and Trade Review, Vol 23, No 99
Articles in this issue
- Report that a director first wired word that American Bicycle Company machines would be sold to all dealers with no exclusive city branches, but by the next day the board's monthly meeting had ended with directors refusing to divulge any policy at all, leaving unsettled whether A.B.C. bicycles would go to more than one dealer per town, while the company's new bonds drew only a small public subscription, leaving the underwriting bankers to carry most of the issue themselves.
- Announcement of a new consolidation of three cycle companies -- Adams & Westlake, John Lonn & Sons, and David Bradley Manufacturing -- into a two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar corporation retaining the Adlake, America, and Crown brand names, with LaPorte, Indiana and Kankakee, Illinois competing to land the new combined factory.
- Report that the American Waltham Company is planning to relocate its two-speed bicycle gear manufacturing to Hartford, Connecticut, with local investors supporting the move.
- Statement from the Eclipse company denying rumors of a sale to the Eagle company and announcing an aggressive push to expand its bicycle department.
- Market report from London on the Portuguese bicycle trade, where the Humber company holds an exclusive right to manufacture locally but American machines including Columbia and Eldredge are selling well to importers.
- Racing results and club news from cycling organizations.