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Fox also made cars. But not a lot of them. And that was after Ansley was out of the gun business.
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I have a Savage chain drive tricycle, but research shows it was not made by Savage Arms Co. The seat is marked with the name of a Massachusetts company, however. Clapper Zapper, how would you like to buy another seventies Schwinn Super Sport? I also have a nice Schwinn "beach bike", don't know the model. A few years ago, there was an IJ bicycle for sale in an antique mall in Cambridge, MD, but I didn't take advantage.
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I'm more interested in Clapper's Schwinn tandem. Lucky devil. 
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I believe it was at the end of the first world war that bsa really stepped up bicycle production, they had a lot of machine tools and staff and with the end of hostilities nothing for them to make. Bicycles and motorcycles was the obvious market for them to target.
One problem bsa motorcycles had , in common with rolls royce cars, was that they never used one part when five would do.
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Guns were also sold by bicycle retailers: C.G. BONEHILL 12-BORE TOPLEVER HAMMERGUN, RETAILED BY THE CYCLE & CARRIAGE CO. LTD. KUALA LUMPUR http://auctions.holtsauctioneers.com/asp...6&saletype=
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While on the subject of Rolls Royce during the Great War the Crewe factory produced rifles amongst other things each one bearing the stamp RRC and can I say that sixty per cent of the total output of their cars are still road worthy. Though now Bentley cars come from the Rolls Royce factory in a small Cheshire town that hardly anyone has heard of not far from where I live. Though sadly it is another Brit car plant that our German cousins now own and of course the Rolls Royce car is now manufactured in Germany.
The only lessons in my life I truly did learn from where the ones I paid for!
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While on the subject of Rolls Royce during the Great War the Crewe factory produced rifles amongst other things each one bearing the stamp RRC and can I say that sixty per cent of the total output of their cars are still road worthy. Though now Bentley cars come from the Rolls Royce factory in a small Cheshire town that hardly anyone has heard of not far from where I live. Though sadly it is another Brit car plant that our German cousins now own and of course the Rolls Royce car is now manufactured in Germany. During the black days of ww2 could anyone imagine that one day rolls royce, who made a big war effort towards victory of the allies, would be in the hands of the germans. Didn't the ford dagenham make prototype welrod pistols ? I know bsa made the few that were produced.
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Remember Iver-Johnson as well was a bycicle manufacturer - Chicopee Falls, Ma. Say what-- it is spelled bicycle, Dean-o. You still need a proof-reader, don't you? How are things at the Stutz operation in Wm. Hardon Foster's hometown, and will you be a dustin' off a few Sir Ruffies with a PARKAAAH this comin' Oct??
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It's embarrassing when the editor's words require editing - thanks for catching the typo Francis.
No longer with Stutz - retired almost two years ago and have loads more time for the new pup training her on "ruffies" and woodcock.
This season I think I'll use my little Parker 16 gauge lifter on the 0-frame.
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Have any of you ever seen an antique bicycle with laminate tubes?
Interesting question, and I don't know the answer. Does anyone know if these companies were making their own tubes or buying them from a manufacturer? Reynolds was making tubes by 1889 in Birmingham, and got a patent for making butted tubes in 1897. I suspect that if there were ever laminate tubed bikes built, they would have been during the 1889-1897 period and I bet Reynolds would be the place to look.
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