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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 788, 3 April 1905, Page 2

Dan Rudge. Ail who enter Coventry know the j familiar face of "reaping Tom," and | recall Tennyson's poem of "Gadiva." 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 eyflof astonishment te see all the world flying past on wheels. Another historical name that is linked with the name of Coventry | for oil timo is that of Ban Kudge, I of Wolverhampton, the fore-runner ; or rather the fore-rider, of the Kudgtj , Whitworth machines, in the sixties. | He made his own machine, rode, his , own machine,racod his own muchine, and beat wwybody's. until other racers, buying this machine,also be- ( came winners. Itut there is more to come. Tn 1878, wc are told, Dan Kudge patented liall Hearings. What a large debt of gratitude the cycling ivorld owes to the fore-runner of the Hudge-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 advanco till in 1891 the ■familiar sign of the open hand appeared, and in 1894 the present well-known signature of the company appeared—Rudgie-WhitM'orth Ltd. Such' is the history of the largest cycle manufacturing company in Kngland. That starting as Dan Rudge in the sixties is in 1905 known as RUDGE-WHITWO'RTH LTD.

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