The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 24, No 109
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
The American Bicycle Company formally notified the trade of its ownership of the Smith-Owen bottom bracket patent and warned that manufacturing or selling bicycles with infringing brackets was actionable, though independent makers universally refused the proposed one-dollar-per-bracket royalty as absurd given that the part sold for less than twenty-five cents.
- Will There Be a Bottom Bracket Suit?
Opinion in the trade was divided on whether the A.B.C. would actually bring suit over the bottom bracket patent, with some believing the company's legal advisers preferred to avoid a fight given that veteran makers had evidence the patent had been anticipated by prior British designs.
- Australian Trade Alarmed: Sears, Roebuck Invades the Antipodes
Sears, Roebuck & Co. began advertising in Australian cycling papers for agents in every town to sell their low-priced bicycles direct from Chicago, alarming local trade members who responded by forming the Victorian Cycle Board of Trade for mutual protection.