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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 779, 23 March 1905, Page 2

The Cradle Of the Cycle. As we rida on our bicycle ilh the greatest comfort along our "tutii'ul country roads with, perps, huge overhanging trees or rns lending a charm and beauty to jr surroundings and a wave of gratitude to our machine passes over us, how many know, and, shuddering, remember, that once when the bicycle was in its wooden stage, it narrowly escaped death. Yet it n so. Aid what averted so jrreat a national disaster ? Do we realise, as we spin along, that it was Coventry, the cradle of the cycle, that saved the bicycle's life ; Coventry that came to the fore, came to the rescue with the india-rubber tyre, and carefully nursed than, mercurial infant in its critical illnr— ' - " ' vigorous life, to become of a long line of robust roadsters. j In the famous year of '97 the Amebicycle—an attempt to damage the British industry. Bicycles in thou- | sands were landed from America. And what happened. Coventry again rushed to the rescue, awoke to the danger of this invasion, and it was the Hudgw-Whitworth Ce. that was first and foremost in the light. It was due to the superhuman eiorts of this firm that the invasion was checked. Beaten, buffeted, broken in the fight, they returned to America. It was a triumph for the firm of Budge-Whit worth, and made them at once the acknowledged leaders of cycle manufacture throughout the British Empire.

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