Tyre With a History
Salvaged from the branch of a tree! where it had swayed in the winds, dis-1 carded for many years, a bicycle tyre! with a history lies in the waste rubber ' depot at New Plymouth. It is solid rubber, not hollow, like the modern J pneumatic tyre. About 1890 the late', Mr. Thomas Avery visited Australia with a team of New Zealand bowlers, j and when he returned he brought the! first geared bicycle the town had seen. To New Plymouth at that time the machine looked just as extraordinary as ’ the big-wheeled penny-farthing would look to-day. >
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 5
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100Tyre With a History Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 5
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