The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 25, No 132

Articles in this issue

• Side Lines Are Promising: Washington Dealers Look to Summer Outing Goods for Profits

  Washington bicycle dealers reported moderate but improving retail business, with dealers who had added summer sporting goods and vacation equipment as sidelines finding those lines particularly profitable, while weekly window display changes were credited with attracting customers to showrooms.

• A.B.C. Affairs in London: Office Matters in a Muddle

  A London trade correspondent reported that the American Bicycle Company's London office was in administrative chaos, with a succession of organizers dismissed or replaced, correspondence in disarray, and one dismissed employee demanding breach-of-contract damages and threatening violence.

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• Brings Suit Against A.B.C.: Owners of Metz Pedal Patent Desire to Prove Validity of Their Claims

  Attorneys for Waltham Mfg. Co.'s Charles Metz commenced suit against the American Bicycle Company in Boston federal court for infringement of broad pedal patents covering the type of tubular cross-arm pedal then nearly universal in the industry, with further suits against other alleged infringers said to be in preparation.

• Hooley an Enigma: Interesting Reminiscence Recalled by Late Hoax Regarding Russian Gold Fields

  A report that undischarged bankrupt Ernest Terah Hooley had secured a Russian gold field concession from the Czar was quickly denied, prompting the Cycle Trader of London to recall the extraordinary scale of the financial ruin and scandal Hooley had left in the British cycle trade.