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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 783, 29 March 1905, Page 2

Dan Rudge.

All who enter Coventry know the familiar fuco of "Peeping Tom," and recall Tennyson's poem of "Uadiva." And since the day of Uodiva's noble ' the cycle of time and invention ' has rushed forward, spinning "down the ringing grooves of change." "Peeping Tom," leaning from his ! window, still peeps perpetually down upon the street below, and he may . well open a wide eytief 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 Rudge, of Wolverhampton, the fore-runner or rather the fore-rider, of the Itudgt Whitworth machines, in the sixties.. He made his own machine, rode, his own machinc,raccd his own machine, and beat everybody's, until other racers, buying this machine,also became winners. Hut there is more to come. In 1878, we are told, Dau Kudge patented Hall Bearing!*. What I u large debt of gratitude the cycling world owes to the fore-runner of the Hudgc-WhitworU 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 tho name of D. Rudge & Co. The company went rapidly forward becoming, just as the Safety was coming out in 1887, the Rudge Cycle Co., Ltd. Still progressing the firm continued its successful advance till in 1891 the 'familiar sign of the open hand appeared, and in 1894 tho present well-known signature of the company appeared—Rudge-Whitworth Ltd. Such is the history of the largest cycle manufacturing company in England. That starting as Dan Rudgo in the sixties is in 190."> known as RUDGE-WHITWOHTH LTD.

FUNEUAL NOTICE.

THE FL'NERAL of the late Mary Ann Colo will leave her late rosidcnce, Vogeltown, lor To llenui Cemetery., at 2 p.m., on Wednesday, March- 29 th. Friends will kindly accept this intimation. F. IIELDT, Undertaker.