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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review

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ablishment being that Mexi-can consumers may have the advantage of anestablishment where they can inspect variouslines of goods of American manufacture, andwhere they can place orders for the samethrough resident agents without the troubleof writing to this country for catalogues andspecifications. American wheelmakers wouldgladly support such an institution. TAXING MOTORS. Regulations for the taxation of motor ve-hicles have just been issued in England ac-cording to which the owners of all such vehi-cles weighing less than one ton will be calledupon to pay an annual tax of $5 or $3.50, ac-cording as they are used for private purposesor as public conveyances. The same rule willapply to motor vehicles over one ton inweight, the amount of taxes being $25 and$19, respectively. The new rule went intoforce on January 1. In the list of American goods exported toAfiica for the first time bicycles appear thisyear, $20,683 worth being shipped to theDark Continent during the present fiscalyear.
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i897- 55 j* SOME FRICTIONAL FACTS. How Various Forms of Bearings Have Been Introduced in Cycling to Avoid Friction. (Continued from Dec. 25.)By an error, Fig. 10 in our last was shownas lying on its side; to be in the proper posi-tion, the set-screw and single ball should beat the bottom. In the third sentence on page53, a slip of the pen made us say that the in-clined surface of the cone does not move ina plane parallel, etc.; as made, the statementcould not be true. We should have said thatthe inclined surface does not lie in, insteadof does not move in. ANOTHER FORM OF THREE-POINT. Turn back a moment to Fig. 11, represent-ing the three-point bearing as almost invaria-bly constructed; we say almost, in orderto cover the possible exceptions of which weare not at present aware. As already ex-plained, the fault in it is that it requires con-trary motions of the ball, which is expectedto roll on sides A and B of the case at thesame time and cannot do so; it has to slide aswell as roll,

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