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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7763, 15 March 1905, Page 2

The Bjnth of the Cycle Pull .if eveitement, full of interest, f.ill hi' stiv.ngc (-veins is ■bicycle his- • iry, and Coventry con tell ii tale •.l uiiih.. daring deeds and breathless .•sen| c. on the wheel. ' Mai'., liow, after any great wai, -■ iy . rasis (lin a nation's history, iiieiv comes with peace a rush of i.ivcntiuii, a leap forward in indnsiiy, a new life in science. and a ,reat expansion of all tlr.it is good i■• a nation. In JOCio we had the i.isl glimmer of the \wheel, when I'.Velyn tells us in his ' T'i.'iiy'' that He loinid ••in-, Yuikms, Sir Win. IVitx and Mr Doom- contriving chai.o.a, new rigging tor whips, a wheel lor one 10 run races in, and other li.echui.icn'i la .e.i'.i.m.-,." ,la v .. aim of 1835 there was a gieal re\i\ul ol industry, men's in\entlvepowers more busily catering for the . .recriiirenieiits of Europe after tne war, ' f and there came over to Ki,gland ; from Prance, what may be considered !lo be the lirst altelil|H at a iwowhccled machine—the iiandy Horse. It is curious how exactly we cum punctuate the progress ot the bicycle in tens of years—'74, 'B4, 'ill. 'til—- : they are like stepping stones standIjng out boldly in the river ol time, iln 1871 Tlan Pudge's name was In every mouth, and his famous bicycle ; caused an immense sensation. In the same year the Annual Kegislcr tells us—as a national event—that a member of the Pickwick Bicycle Club "accomplished a journeymen the bicycle from London to Bath and back in thirty-seven hours, having been (in thefl saddle two whole days and one night, with short intervals for meals and one hour for sleep." The year 3 884 sow the first attempt at a safety, the. Pudge Cycle Company bringing out their various kinds of rear-driving safety bicycles, and this date, really heralded the large popularity of the safe form of riding, and of Dan Pudge, from Tvhoni, after a lapse of over thirty years, has grown 'the huge manufacturing company' known as thei lvudgc-Whftwortli Cycle Company, so well known throughout the British Empire.

S. Clark & Co. Charges Moderate,