The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 25, No 135
Articles in this issue
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Two former Stearns division employees of the A.B.C. organized the Riggs-Spencer Co. in Rochester to manufacture fitting sets for the Sager chainless driving gear, backed by $25,000 in subscribed capital and targeting an output of 25,000 sets in the first year.
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An auction sale of bicycles in Cleveland by outside dealers, rather than harming local trade, was credited by regular dealers with stimulating new public interest that sent buyers to established stores for bicycles at comparable prices with better after-sale service.
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New England bicycle dealers reported the 1900 season's volume was slightly below the past two seasons as the trade passed its peak, with independent makers' representatives having been more aggressive than trust salesmen and dealers who added golf supplies as sidelines finding them particularly profitable.
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A traveling salesman for one of the A.B.C.'s branch operations described his frustration at being reduced to a cog in a machine with no discretion over expenses or judgment about his own territory, contrasting this with the relative autonomy he had enjoyed before his firm was absorbed into the trust.