DOMINATES WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10738, 8 November 1928, Page 7

DOMINATES WORLD.

BRITISH. MOTOR-CYCLE ; • ; INDUSTRY. BRIGHT 'SPOT IN BRITISH ■ trade. • ' ; BLACK RACES TAKING TO PUSH CYCLE. (British Official .Wiro^aa.) RUGBY, Nov. o. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, -,tbe Home Secretary, opened the Qycle and Motor-cycle Show at Olympia today. Ho said the motor-cycle _ industry was one of .the few bright spots in British trade at present". In 1925 Britain exported 46,500 mo-tor-cycles;; in 1927. 52,800; And the first nine months of this year just under 50,000. In regard to what were termed “push bicycles we exported in 1925 276,000; in 1927, 283,000; and so far this year 248,500. Production .was consistently going up, and, this year at least 120,000 motor-cycles and 800,000 pedal cycles would be made. Imports were negligible, he said, which showed how the British cycle industry dominated the world. All over Asia and Africa the native races were taking to the push bicvcle. The market was thereby increased by 100,000,000. He suggested more and more organisation of these markets, which would not only be protfiable to cycle manufacturers,, but would give more employment to. the workers'- of the Midlands. The Show provides,' indeed, a remarkable example of the tremendous strides made by the motor-cycle industry. At one extreme are motorcycles costing £2OO, superb in mechanical engineering and design, aqd guaranteed to tra% - el at ICO miles an . hour. At the other extreme is a machine costing £2O only, but a very fine one, even at that figure. In between are machines adapted to all tastefe and purses.