** INVENTION OF THE BICYCLE The hundredth anniversary of the ' invention of the first bicycle propelled by pedals will be commemorated in September by the unveiling of a plaque on the wall of the smithy in village of Courthill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where a Kirkpatrick MacMillan, made the machine. It is estimated by the British Cycle-makers* Union that i.i the world to-day there are 61,000.000 •descendants of this first bicycle. Last * year Britain sent abroad of which 156,166 were sold to foreign # countries, a record figure representing a value of £486,306. LARGE assortment of coloured bas. - ins. S. S. Shapley and Co., Phone -00, # _ The cold weather will come so se. -cure one of the new Down Quilts at Uridgers Limited. . ~ , •
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 46, 7 August 1939, Page 5
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