Cycles and Motors.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 923, 16 September 1910, Page 5

Cycles and Motors.

' Mr. Clarltson states that trade in England has" brisked : up .considerably, ana from the manufacturing standpoint: there is nothing to complain of. The motorcar people cannot supply the demand; though they are rapidly ' catching up ,to It. 'At present it is still booming, as the cycle trade did in .the days of 'Mr, 13. T. Hooley, but it Trill :come. down to a normal, state as soon as the initial demand is satisfied. The cycle tradq was still solid, and a great trade was being done in high-speed motor-cycles, 'l'he latter could now be purchased capable of developing a. speed of G8 miles an hour on good roads. . :' Mr. Clarkson travelled ; twtjveen Ei.gland and America, both ways, by i tilts' Maure. tania,. and speaks in the highest terms of the degree of luxury, combined with speed, which is embodied in; the vessel. Going fo England the steamer'left Now York at 10 a.m. 'on a. Wednesday, arid ho was in London>'at 10.55 p.m. on tho following Monday night. The great steamer is as,solid as a rock, and what with the beautiful ' conservatories, . the bands playing, and the electric elevators at one's, beck and call, it is -almost impossible to imagine that you aro at sea.