DOMINION BUILT BICYCLES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 127, 14 March 1950, Page 3

DOMINION BUILT BICYCLES

FACTORY IN CHRISTCHURCH (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. For the first time in the history of the British bicycle industry, an English bicycle will be manufactured outside the United Kingdom. An agreement to this effect was signed in Christchurch to-day. The chairman and. managing directof of the Cov-entry-Eagle Motor and Cycle Co., Ltd. (Mr Douglas Mayo, of Coventry) has jointed the board of Cycleworths (New Zealand) Ltd., and the firm will build his well-known machine under licence in the firm’s factory at Opawa. Mr George Stock, of Wellington, the Coventry-Eagle Company’s representative, in''the Dominion, said that bicycles had been manufactured in a modern factory at Opawa since January. The factory employed 40 persons, including two key men with overseas experience in building cycles, and was turning out 500 bicycles a month. It was hoped to build up the output to ICOO a month, and this would mean doubling the staff. Bicycles would be sold direct to dealers, and would cost a few shillings less than the imported machines. The factory builds bicycle frames, handlebars, forks, seat pillars and handlebar stems from imported tubular stems, explained Mr Stock. Seats, pedals and other parts would he imported.