The Cycle Age And Trade Review, Vol 25, No 148

Articles in this issue

• Cycle Men in Auto Business: Cleveland Becoming a Hotbed of Automobile Dealers and Makers

  Cleveland bicycle trade veterans reorganized wholesale and retail operations to pursue the automobile business, with Collister & Sayle incorporating the Cleveland Automobile & Supply Co. with $25,000 capital and Locomotile, Waverly, and Elmore agencies, while the Lozier retail store was taken over by the Diebold brothers and several bicycle jobbers prepared to stock automobile parts and sundries.

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• Chicago Automobile Show: Opening Day Marred by Amateur Management

  The Inter-Ocean motor vehicle show at Washington Park opened to chaos, with exhibits incomplete, rules unclear, and attendance under 1,500 on opening day, though a dramatic ten-mile race between Alexander Winton's automobile and Orient motor tricycles provided genuine excitement, with Winton winning by two yards in a hair-raising finish over DeDion-powered machines.

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• Rochester Preparations: Riggs-Spencer Company's Factory Ready to Produce October 1

  The Riggs-Spencer Co. was nearly ready to begin producing chainless bicycle frame sets in its new Rochester factory by October 1, and was already turning out its new coaster brake — a design it claimed was the only one that allowed the wheel to run freely both backwards and forwards.

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