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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 782, 28 March 1905, Page 2

Dan Rudge. All who enter Coventry know the iaiuiliar face of -'Peeping Tom," and recall Tennyson's poem of "Ciodiva." And since the nhiy of Oodiva's noble deed the cycle of time am! invention has rusTicd forward, spinning 'down the ringing grooves of change." "Peeping- Tom," leaning from his window, still [jeeps perpetually down upon the street below, and he may well open a wide eye of astonishment to see all the world flying past on wheels. Another historical name that is linked with the name of Coventry for all time is that of Dan Hudge, cf Wolverhampton, the fore-runner, or rather the fore-rider, of the Kudgv. Whitworth machines, in the sixties. He made his own machine, rode, his own machine.raccd his own machine, and beat everybody's, until other racers, buying this mac)iine,also became winners, lint there is more to come. In 1878, we are told, Dan Rudge patented Jtall Hearings. What n large debt of gratitude the cycling world owes to the fore-runner of the Uudgo-Whitworth Co. ; what a' great relief it must have been to riders. This remarkable personality died—in the height of his prosperity—in the year 1880, and his extensive business was sold, and in the following year the new firm took the name of 1). Hudge & Co. The company went rapidly forward becoming, just as the Safety was coming out in 1887, the Hudge Cycle Co., Ltd. Still progressing the firm continued its successful advance till in 1891 the 'familiar sign of the onMi haiid appeared, and in 1894 the snt well-known signature of the company appeared—Hudgc-Whitwortl: Ltd. Such is the history of the largest cycle manufacturing company in England. That starting as Dan Hudgt in the sixties is in 1900 known as ; BUDGE-WIIITWOHTH LTD.