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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7761, 13 March 1905, Page 2

K. REYNOLDS & JO., LTD. :

Mill of .--.vehement, full of Interest, .;.. of >■ . .m.... eM-iu* is bicycle hjs- <■ . . iu.i. uventry can tell a tale i ..am mring deeds ami breathless s- ■: os . i the wheel. ■rk , », nl'tor any great wm, n.. cj .~i [lin a- nation's history, I !• comes with peace ,\ rush of n .ntion, a leap forwar.l in indnsi . a new life in science, and a ■ .t expansion of all thai is good .. a nation. In 1005 we had tin ii t glimmer ,or the ! wheel, when •..ilyi, u-lis us in his •"Pi.it;,•" tliat ii lountl "Pr. Wilkins, Sir Win. I*et.i\ mil Mr iiooUe conirix ihjj ciiaiio,..-, ce* rigging for whips, u wheel iir one lo nin races in, am: '>t v, r-r I iiecliumcul inventions. ' |ln the Mini of 1-813 there was a yie.it reiivul of industry, men's inventive powers more busily catering for the iCjCfuircments of Europe after the war, jnd there came over lo J-'iigiaiid ' from France what may be considcre.i lo be the first attempt at a l\vonheeled machine—the Jiandy Horse. II is curious how exactly we inn punctuate the progress of the bicycle in tens of years—'7l, "Si, >l. 'Hl—they are. life stepping stones standing out boldly in the river of Ume. In JS74 Dan Pudge's name was in every mouth, and his famous bicycle laiised an immense sensation. In llvMime year the Annual Hegistcr tells us—as a national event—that a member of the Pickwick Hieycle Club "accomplished a journeyVon the bicycle from ljondon to T.ath and back in thirty-seven -hours, having been mi Uuf saddle two whole days and one night, with short intervals for meals and one hour for sleep." 'flic year 1884 saw the first attempt at a safety, the lludg-e Cycle Company bringing out their various kinds of rear-driving safety bicycles, and this date really lieial.led the large popularity of the safe form of nding, and of I>an Hodge, from whom;' after a lapse ol over thirtyyears, has grown 'the huge manufacturing- company known as the Itudge-Whitworlh Cycle Company, so veil known throughout the British IMiipire.

u PIKETT, BUILDER, CONTRACTOR, AND UNDERTAKER. - Address: DEVON STREET. Telephone No. 176. ork in connection wtlb the buildUg '.rade. S. Clark & Co. FUNERAL FUKNIBHERB AND UNDERTAKERS. New Plymouth Chances Moderate.