THE BICYCLE AND TELEGRAPH REPAIRS.
Incidentally the recent stormy weather at Horae has given.a further impetus to official acknowledgment of the bicycle. Every telegraph post throughout England is inspected once in three months. In ordinary times this is more or less a formal business. With more stormy atmospheric conditions, involving frequent obstruction of the lines by overthrown trees, there is a good deal of journeying to and fro on the pafff of officials and workmen. The assistant surveyors of the Post Office and the Royal Engineers, who have charge of the work, are encouraged in the use of the bicycle by the allowance of a penny a mile when they use their own machines.
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Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 30, 30 October 1897, Page 11
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114THE BICYCLE AND TELEGRAPH REPAIRS. Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 30, 30 October 1897, Page 11
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