£22 MOTOR-CYCLES.

Mataura Ensign, 15 January 1914, Page 5

£22 MOTOR-CYCLES.

A visit to the exhibition of cycles, motor-cycles and cycle-tars at Olympia, which opened on November 22, convinces one that public interest has been awakened by all the forms of cheap motoring. Moreover, unlike the visitors to the motor-car exhibition, most of the visitors to Olympia wero intending purchasers. People flocked to the show from all parts cf the kingdom. No doubt the low initiafcost of many of the exhibits attracts a great number of people, for a cycle-car could be bouttht for under £6O, a motor-cycle for £22, and a motor auxiliary attachment for £l6.

One (i the most attractive novelties was the mono-car. Imagine a Vti« hj!»» or red torpedo—with a holo in the centre through which the driver ioww« himself to recline in a ljosilion i*nk equalled by that obtained'" on .i s/.fa-~ placed on bicycle wheels, and vnu hare the mono-car. Simplicity is tb.■: keynote, and it is possibte to lift up tha front of the car with one 'hund