The Modern bicycle and its accessories; a complete reference book for rider, dealer, and maker (1898)
Schwalbach, Alexander, Wilcox, Julius, Commercial advertiser association, New York · New York, The Commercial advertiser association · leaf 93
e, who formerly used an aluminumrim, now offer it as an option only, andshow all their samples with wood rims,and this may again be regarded as a re-version, the original type of the old DandyHorse velocipede having been built with wood rims and shod with iron, the onlydifference now being that we… … PLYMOUTH RIM. sessing, as it did, very little lateralstrength, it had a great tendency to buckleunder the force of a blow or a collision, andwhen the safety came in vogue this sameIdea of rim construction ,was carried intoit. An improvement was made, however,in their construction in making them of…
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