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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 781, 25 March 1905, Page 2

The Cradle Of the Cycle. As we rids on our bicycle with the greatest comfort along our beautiful country roads with, perhaps, huge overhanging trees or 1 ferns lending a charm and beauty to 1 our surroundings and a wave oi gratitude to our machine passes over us, how many know, and, shuddering, remember, that once when the bicycle wus in its wooden stage, it narrowly escaped death. Vet it is so. And what averted so great 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 caino to the fore, came to the rescue with tho india-rubber tyre, and carefully nursed that mercurial . infant in its critical illness, Inick to vigorous life, to become the parent of a long line of robust roadsters. In the famous year of '97 the Americans invaded England with their bicycte—an attempt to damage the British Bicycles in thousands were landed from America. And what happened. Coventry again rushed to the rescue, awoke to the danger of this invasion, and it was the Rudge-Whitworth Co. that was first and foremost in the light. It was due to the superhuman ef- ' orts 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- Rudge-Whitworth, and made them at once tho acknowledged lead- ' ers of cycle manufacture throughout the British Empire.

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