The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 24, No 117
Articles in this issue
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The Shelby Steel Tube Co. was reorganized with a capital stock of $15,000,000 under a new directorate that included Colonel Pope and A.B.C. president R. Lindsay Coleman, consolidating virtually all American seamless tube manufacturers into one company with plans to list on the Chicago exchange.
- Keating Reconstruction Plan
The reorganization committee of the Keating Wheel & Automobile Co. proposed a revised plan to inject $200,000 in new funds, issue preferred cumulative stock to creditors, and place management under trustee oversight for three years until the company could resume profitable production of bicycles and automobiles.
- Cycle Awakening of Cuba: A Belated Boom Has Struck Havana
Following the Spanish-American War, Havana experienced a rapid bicycle boom with cycle exports from the United States to Cuba jumping from $5,286 in 1898 to $111,702 in 1899, driven by cooler winter weather and eager Cuban white-collar dealers opening cycle stores throughout the city.