The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 25, No 131

Articles in this issue

• Bargain Day in Buffalo: Remarkable Sliding Scale of Prices of Cut-Price Houses

  Saturday had become recognized as 'bicycle bargain day' in Buffalo, where a sustained price war had pushed machines once offered at $27.50 down to as little as $13, with buyers discovering the cheapest bicycles came with poor-quality tires that wore through after a week's use.

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• Manager Page Resigns: Founder of Lamb Mfg. Co. Retires Before Disintegration of Plant Begins

  T.C. Page resigned as manager of the Lamb Manufacturing Co. rather than oversee the A.B.C.'s consolidation of New England bicycle production into Hartford and Westfield, having founded the company in 1867 and built it into a leading bicycle maker over ten years.

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• Canadian Factories Burned: St. Catharines Plants of Canada Cycle & Motor and Welland Vale Destroyed

  A fire originating in the boiler room destroyed the plants of the Canada Cycle & Motor Co. and the Welland Vale Manufacturing Co. in St. Catharines, Ontario, causing aggregate losses of $500,000 and gutting one of the largest consolidated bicycle manufacturing operations in Canada.

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• To Move Snow Chain Plant: Crosby and Dana to Consolidate It with Springfield Plant

  The Snow Cycle Chain Co. plant in Syracuse was to be moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where Crosby and Dana would consolidate it with their Springfield Drop Forging Co. operation, continuing the pair's strategy of building an independent parts manufacturing base.

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