PROTECTING WOMEN
BRITISH-MADE CYCLES THOUSANDS BEING BUILT Clothes rationing has led to a concession in the design of the extra 150,000 bicycles which Britain is building specially for women cyclists during the present war. The bicycles will be reserved mainly for use between their homes and factories of the army of women now 'being called up for war work. In deciding the -specification for the machines, the British cycle industry had rather a problem. To save steel, no more bicycles are being made in Britain during the war with the fixture for changing gear or with the oil bath gear case. It was felt, on the other hand, that this special war issue of bicycles could not be left with chains completely unprotected, otherwise stockings might be ruined and valuable coupons used up as a result.
It has, therefore, been decided that the woman war worker is to be given her choice between the chain guard, known as the "hockey stick” type, covering the top run of the chain, and a chain cover which keeps the whole run of the chain from possible contact with skirt or stockings. Both clothes and rider will thus be protected.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3105, 13 April 1942, Page 6
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196PROTECTING WOMEN Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3105, 13 April 1942, Page 6
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