Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 185
Perfect safety, great brakepower, good position for feet up, luggage and lamp-carrying facilities, and a higher gear. (A four-inchhigher wheel can be taken than on an ordinary.) The Merlin is built in several patterns, but its pecu-liar features are its lever steering and driving gear.The driving… … Merlin Special Brixton Tricycle. placed some 3 inches behind the top of the tube which,in the ordinary Humber pattern, carries them. Boththis rod and the top of the tube are fitted with shortarms or levers projecting at right angles to them.Their ends are united by a link, through which poweris…
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