The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 25, No 145

Articles in this issue

• Cleveland Trade Activity: Personnel of Ball Controlling Company — Grant Works to Go to Pennsylvania

  Further details emerged on the Central Distributing Co. of Buffalo, revealed as a selling agency controlled by the Excelsior, Grant, Cleveland Ball & Screw, and Steel Ball companies with E.A. Jones as president; separately, the Grant Ball Co. accepted an offer to relocate its plant to Franklin, Pennsylvania, with plans for a larger factory and increased production.

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• Want Automobile Agencies: Philadelphia Cycle Dealers Taking Up Sale and Repairing of Motor Bicycles

  Leading Philadelphia bicycle dealers — including the former Columbia, Stearns, Victor, and Crescent agents — were preparing to add automobile and motorcyle lines to their businesses, with rumors that the city's annual cycle show would be replaced by an automobile exposition the following winter.

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• British Spleen and Lies: Another Effort Is Made to Disparage American Cycles

  The Cycle Age accused the British trade paper 'The Cyclist' of deliberately distorting a letter from an American enthusiast to suggest that educated American riders considered domestic bicycles inferior, part of a pattern of biased anti-American reporting it had previously noted when the paper compared a $25 Belgian bicycle with a $60 English machine and presented the result as an American-versus-English comparison.

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