THE FAMILY SIDE-CAR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 217, 1 February 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE FAMILY SIDE-CAR

WO.MEX'S NEW IXFLrEWE OX THE CYCLE ixdcstry. The feature of the Cycle Exhibition, which opened at Olympia. London, last month, is (he number and excellence of tlie motov-vyele side-ears on show. For the second time in its history women have revolutionised the cycle' industry and made everybody busy. The side-car is changing week-end habifs. It is even changing the habits of the annual holiday. The man and his wife who used to go to one <easide town and stay there now visit half-a-dozen. ( or in tlie alternative make one town their centre and spend their days whirling about the countryside. "It is ihi- convenience and the comparative cheapness of the cycle side-car which account for its popularity," said the representative of a firm which makes all manner of cycles. "V\"e have to thank the women for the •'boom/ Few women like to be responsible for the running of a motov-cvcle, but Oiey love to sit in comfort beside the driver. Vie frequently fix an extra neat, protected by a wind-screen, in the «a.r. to carry a child: then father, mother and baby <r (l away for a jaunt, ' "'l. have heard of n few side-car honeymoons and of a many side-car courtships. Young women used to buy bicycle for pica-Mire-, now tbcv buv i.hei'n tor business. The side-car is' their jov." Tlie advent of tlie cycle-car is one'of the most interesting features of the show. The specimens 0!1 v j IMV ,| )m „,. ulv different, methods of co„siruction, some looking like toy touring ears, while others differ very little from the orthodox motorcycle. The cycle-car seems lik.dv to place motoring wit!,,,, the reach of thousands whose means are iiiMillicient to -import an ordinary motor-car.