The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 25, No 147

Articles in this issue

• The Motor Age Exhibition: Automobile Show Will Be Held in the New Coliseum at Chicago Next March

  Motor Age magazine announced a Chicago automobile exhibition for the last week of March 1901 in the new Coliseum on Wabash Avenue, offering fifty percent more floor space than Madison Square Garden and a twenty-foot demonstration track, while a competing Inter-Ocean auto show was also drawing bicycle trade exhibitors for a race meet at Washington Park that same week.

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• Bi-World Absorbs Wheel: Goodman Gathers Prial's Property Into His Fold

  Bicycling World, the pioneer American cycling journal founded in 1877, purchased The Wheel from Frank Prial and renamed itself 'The Bicycling World and Motocycle Review,' consolidating the eastern cycling press down to a single title, with Prial exiting cycling journalism entirely and retaining only his Liquor Trades Review.

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• Eclipse Headquarters: Brake Shipments Will Be Made from New York — 118,000 Sold Last Year

  The Eclipse Mfg. Co., maker of the Morrow coaster brake, reorganized with a paid-up capital of $200,000 and centralized all shipping through a new New York office, reporting sales of 118,000 units in the past season and renewing its foreign distribution contract with Green & Houk.

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• Motor Cycles in Favor: Tested by Dealers in New York State

  Utica bicycle dealer C.H. Broadbent reported that after a full season of daily use, his Orient four-wheel motorycle had given no trouble and predicted the motor vehicle business would replicate the bicycle boom of 1895-97, with the Orient brand considered a year ahead of all other makes.

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