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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 787, 1 April 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 notile deed the cycle of time and invention has rus'hed 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 eyoof 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 Itudgo, of Wolverhampton, the fore-runner or rather the fore-rider, of the Rudge; Whitworth machines, in the sixties. He made his own machine, rode his own inachine.raced his own machine, and beat everybody's, until othor racers, buying this machine.nlso became winners. Hut there is more to come. In 1878, we are told, l>an Iludge patented Ball Bearings. What a large debt of gratitude the cycling world owes to the fore-rußiier of the Rudge-Whitworth Co. ; what a great relief it must have been to ridel's. 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. Budge & Co. The company went rapidly forward becoming, just as the Safety was earning out in 1887, the Budge Cycle Co., Ltd. Still progressing the firm continued its successful advance ;tdll in 1891 Mie familiar sign of the open hand appeared, and in 1894 the present well-known signature of the cempa ny appeared—Rudge-Whitworth Ltd.

Such is the history of the largest cyclo manufacturing company in England. That starting as Ban Rudge in the sixties is in 1905 known as RUDGE-WIUTWORTH LTD.

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