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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 13

One of the further evidences of the growing importance of Eltham as a business centre is the very complete cycle, motor, engineering anrl sports goods ostablishraents controlled by their owner, Air. Ira J. Bridget-. Mr. Bridger has two places of business in the town, one next Jho new municipal oliices in Stanncrs Street, being a motor garage, while the other in Bridge Slreet is a handsome, well-stocked building devoted to bicycles, sports poods, and cycle repairing. ' The motor garage is a roomy now place, 30ft. by s(ift.. with concrete tlonr, fully c<|iiippfd repairing .--hop, and showroom, witli Stuart, Siddeley. and Britain ears, of which .Mr. Bridger holds the agencies. The repairing department is under the control nf .Mr. W. Thorpe, an engineer with cxton-ivo-English and American experience. Cars mav be hired to anv part of the island. At Ihe Bridge Street emporium. .Mr. Bridger holds a very large a ml. complete bicycle stock. There are also very complete stocks of all sorts of sports.goods, from footballs to golfsticks, and guns and-ammunition. A first-class repairing and brazing department for bicycle and machinery work "is also on the premises. llr. Bridger is a young man who purchased the. business'three, years ago. Since then he has made extensile additions t-i il in many wavj, and has kept, pace with the business pro. grestij-ensis of Eltham, ...