BICYCLE CENTENARY
Britain’s Huge Output (British Official Wireless.) (Received July 30, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, July 29. The hundredth anniversary of the invention of the first bicycle propelled by pedals will be commemorated in September by the unveiling of a plaque on the wall of a smithy in the village of Courthill, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, where a blacksmith named Kirkpatrick MacMillan made the machine. It is estimated by the British Cycle Makers’ Union that in the world tdday there are 61,000,000 descendants of this ’first bicycle. Last year Britain sent 576.458 abroad, of which 156,166 were sold to foreign countries—a record figure representing a value of £486,306.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 13
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105BICYCLE CENTENARY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 13
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