MADE IN BRITAIN
THE GOOD OLD BIKE
OVER 61,000,000 MADE The one hundredth anniversary of the invention of the lirst bicycle propelled by pedals will be commemorated this month by the unveiling of a plaque on the wall of a smithy in the village of Courthill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where a blacksmith named Kirkpatrick MaeMillan made the machine. It is; estimated by the British Cycle Makers' Union that there are to-day 61,000,000 bicycles in the world—descendants of the original machine 1 . Last year Britain sent 576,448 bicycles abroad, of which a total of 166,166 were sold to foreign! countries. These were record figures, and represented a value of £486,306.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 4, 16 January 1942, Page 2
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108MADE IN BRITAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 4, 16 January 1942, Page 2
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