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Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)

Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 129

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ss,notably the Centaur, Premier, and Coventry Express,but the machine which made the first sensation in thisdirection was the Salvo, invented by Starley Brothers,of St. Johns Works, Coventry. Originally it was io8 WHEELS AND WHEELING. introduced under the title of The Salvo Quadricycle,it having in… … Two-track Tricycle. cycle was the correct name for it; but as there werenever more than three wheels on the ground at once,it was, and is, rightly classed as a tricycle; and since,among other recent improvements which the machinehas undergone, the size of the rear safety wheel hasbeen materially…

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