The pleasures, objects, and advantages of cycling : with numerous illustrations (1887)
Wilson, A. J., Cyclist · London : Iliffe & Son · leaf 69
saving of ^600 per annum, and gaining indirect profit byvirtue of the superior velocity of the tricycles as comparedwith the horse-carts formerly used. Weekly newspapers,whose cartage work is too intermittent to make it worth whileto keep a stud of cart-horses, use tricycles with similar THE… … THE CARRIER TRICYCLE. Some people object that this utilitarianism is vulgarisingfuhe pastime of cycling, by detracting from its ornamentalattributes ; but I have little sympathy with such hyper-aesthetic complaints ; the probability being that as the severelyutilitarian use of cycles advances, so…
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