FIRST PEDAL CYCLE
HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, July 29. 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 a smithy in the village of Conrthill, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, where a blacksmith, Kirkpatrick MacMillan, made the machine. It is estimated by the British Cycle Makers’ Union, that in the world to-day, there are 01,000,000 descendants of this first bicycle. Last lcar Britain sent abroad 570,458 cycles, of which 150,100 were sold to foreign countries, a record figure representing a value of £480,300.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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107FIRST PEDAL CYCLE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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