Bicycles are popular with Scotsmen, and tandem machines are specially favoured, according to Mr. W. T. TrethcWey, of Christchurch, who returned recently after nine months in Europe. Some, of the tandem machines he saw in Scotland were equipped with side-cars, a whole family going.for an outing together. Both parents usually wore plus fours and the children were in the sidecar. Young people generally used bicycles for week-end and Sunday outings. and : anybody driving through tile country then - met hundreds of them, with their-.font-poles,, frying pans, and billies lashed to their machines,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 16
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