Plastic Wood Cycle Frames ?
Can plastics supplant steel foi cycle frames? A year ago the answer would have been "No" but today men aylio should know say that it -is possible. If plasties do usurp the place of steel tubing for the cycle of tomorrow, it will most likely be a plastic-wood .product. Great progress has been made in the development of resin-impregnated wood particularly in type • produced by impregnation with water soluble synthetic resin. Not. only has the treated wood which may be solid or laminated great strength but it is also very a little less than one-seventh the weight of steel. Hut don't let this worry you—your new cycle will probably be Avell past its prime by the time the first plastic ones even appear on the market.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 97, 14 August 1945, Page 6
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130Plastic Wood Cycle Frames ? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 97, 14 August 1945, Page 6
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