St Nicholas [serial] . TENSION BICYCLE. JOHN O* GROATS SPARROW. MAKER,OR COVENTRY MACHINISTS CO. 1870 OR 1871. A BONESHAKER, RUBBER TIRES NAILED TO WOODEN f_v rp) I^S^ It ^N iiir Jt ^-^^iHB TENSION-WHEELED BONESHAKER, METAL RIMS AND RUBBER TIRES. THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN THE BONESHAKER AND THE ORDINARY. 187O. GROUT S TENSION. ONE OF THE FIRST (AND BEST) RUBBER-TIRED TENSION-WHEELED BICYCLES PUT ON THE MARKET; NOTE DOUBLE STEP AND JOINTED BOW-SPRING: BRAKE CORD, ACTING ON HIND WHEEL, IS BROKEN. seven large carriage-makers, and kept their es- New York, and he also kept men activel


St Nicholas [serial] . TENSION BICYCLE. JOHN O* GROATS SPARROW. MAKER,OR COVENTRY MACHINISTS CO. 1870 OR 1871. A BONESHAKER, RUBBER TIRES NAILED TO WOODEN f_v rp) I^S^ It ^N iiir Jt ^-^^iHB TENSION-WHEELED BONESHAKER, METAL RIMS AND RUBBER TIRES. THE MISSING LINK BETWEEN THE BONESHAKER AND THE ORDINARY. 187O. GROUT S TENSION. ONE OF THE FIRST (AND BEST) RUBBER-TIRED TENSION-WHEELED BICYCLES PUT ON THE MARKET; NOTE DOUBLE STEP AND JOINTED BOW-SPRING: BRAKE CORD, ACTING ON HIND WHEEL, IS BROKEN. seven large carriage-makers, and kept their es- New York, and he also kept men actively em-tablishments busy day and night. He had ployed in two factories in Connecticut, one inseventy men at work in one establishment in Wilmington, Del., and one in Newark, N. J.*The illustrations on this page are here reproduced by the courtesy of the Stanley Club, England. THE STORY OF THE WHEEL. 451


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