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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 786, 31 March 1905, Page 2

Dan Rudge. All who enter Coventry know the familiar face of "Peeping Tom," and recall Tennyson's poem of "Godiva." And since the day of Godiva's noble deed 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 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 Rudge, of Wolverhampton, the forc-runner or rather the fore-rider, of the ItudgVi Whitworth machines, in the sixties. He made his own machine, rode, his own machine,raced his own machine, and beat everybody's, until othor racers, buying this machine,also became .winners. But thex-e is more to come. In 1878, we are lold, Dan Rudge patented Ball Bearings*. Wlint a large debt of gratitude the cycling world owes to the fore-runner of the Rudge-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). 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 the present well-known signature of the Mmpany appeared—Rudgw-WhitVorlh Ltd. Such is the history of the largest cycle manufacturing company in England. That starting as Dan Rudge ia the sixties is in 1905 known as RUDGE-WHITWORTH LTD.

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