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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 784, 30 March 1905, Page 2

Dan Rudge.

All who.enter Coventry know the c familiar face of "Pesping Tom," and recall Tennyson's poem of "Godiva." And since the day of Godiva's noble ' deed the cycle of time and invention E has rus'hed forward, spinning "down ! the ringing grooves of change." B "Peeping Tom," leaning from his window, still peeps perpetually down 1 upon the street below, and he may i well open a wide eyCof astonishment 1 to see all the world lying 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 Kudgt: Whitworth machines, in the sixties. He made his own machine, rode his own machinc,raced his own machine, and beat everybody's, until other racers, buying this machine,also became winners. 15ut there is more to come. In 1878, we arc- told, Dan Rudge patented Hall Bearings. What a large debt of gratitude the cycling world owes to the fore-runm-r of the Rudgc-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 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 i open hand appeared, and in 1894 the present well-known signature of the company appeared—Rudge-Whittworth Ltd. Such is the history of the largest cycle manufacturing company in England. That starting as Dan Rudge in the sixties is in 190j known as " RUDGE-WHITWORTH LTD.

S. Clark & Co. FUNERAL FURNISHERS AND UNDERTAKERS. )evon-strcet East ... New lUymouth. CKarges Moderate.

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