“EVERY MAN HIS OWN LOCOMOTIVE.”
An amazing novelty is recently advertised by an eminent American mechanician, under the heading “ Every man his own Locomotive.” The ingenious gentleman professes to have perfected a tricycle which is destined to emancipate man from the tyranny of railroads. By means of compressed air, pumped into an iron reservoir, constituting the scat of the rider, the tricycle can be propelled forwards at the rate of twentyfive miles an hour; and the inventor proposes to erect pumping stations in town and country districts, at which the travelling tricyclist will be enabled, on payment of a trifling fee, to renew his supply of pneumatic force. Ladies, who are at present debarred by sumptuary considerations and muscular disabilities from economising time and cab fares by aid of the velocipede, will assuredly welcome an appliance which will waft them comfortably seated and without the least physical exertion, to their favourite shops at twice the speed of a parliamentary train.
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Patea Mail, 23 November 1880, Page 3
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