The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 24, No 115
Articles in this issue
- Hose-Pipe Prices Go Up: Tillinghast Licensees Agree to Increase
After the Diamond Rubber Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. took out Tillinghast licenses, all single tube tire prices were set to rise by nearly 50 percent, with minimum licensed prices fixed at $4.25 per pair for guaranteed tires and $2.75 for unguaranteed tires, effectively limiting retail price cutting.
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Some Elmira bicycle dealers announced they would switch to cash-only sales in 1900 to avoid the uncertainty of installment transactions, though installment buying was acknowledged to be beneficial to working-class customers who used bicycles to ride home for lunch.
- Will Charge Uniform Prices: Springfield Repairers' Union Adopts List Based on Catalogues
The Springfield, Massachusetts bicycle repairers' union, with twenty-six of thirty-one local repairmen as members, adopted a standard price schedule charging catalogue prices for parts and fifty cents per hour for labor to end the price-cutting that had previously demoralized the local trade.
- Extends Rack Operations: Calkins' Agent to Collect Royalty in Detroit or Cincinnati
After collecting $1,270 in license fees from Buffalo bicycle rack owners and manufacturers for infringement of the Calkins cycle-stand patent, the patent agent announced he would move on to Detroit or Cincinnati to collect similar royalties from infringers in those cities.
- American Goods in England: One British Agency Pushing U.S. Bicycles
The Newcastle-on-Tyne firm of George & Jobling was reported to be energetically selling American bicycles in England, taking the unusual step of countering domestic prejudice by openly disputing the claim that American machines were inferior, noting the criticism dated from a flood of low-quality exports in 1896.