Shakespeare would ride the bicycle... if alive today. 1896 Cleveland Bicycle Catalog.

[chitown]

 

[chitown]

 

[MrColumbia]

Very nice. No wonder Cleveland adds always sounded better in their "original Klingon".

 

[Wheeled Relics]

Two thumbs up !

 

[MrColumbia]

It is very interesting that they list Westfield Mass as one of their factories in the 1896 catalog. All the documentation I had seen showed the factory being completed in 1897.

 

[fordsnake]

It is very interesting that they list Westfield Mass as one of their factories in the 1896 catalog. All the documentation I had seen showed the factory being completed in 1897.

If Lozier was in the process of building his factory sometime in 1896...it makes sense (feasibility) to preempt brand's expansion in his '86 catalog, even though the factory wasn't competed until '87. It's a marketing ploy to solicit customer loyalty and perception of the brand growth

 

[MrColumbia]

If Lozier was in the process of building his factory sometime in 1896...it makes sense (feasibility) to preempt brand's expansion in his '86 catalog, even though the factory wasn't competed until '87. It's a marketing ploy to solicit customer loyalty and perception of the brand growth

That's what I figured as well.

 

[bricycle]

Great handout/ad, but what a statement.... now they claim to read a dead mans mind....

 

[chitown]

Toledo on the badge

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[bricycle]

poor guy named "Baron" was accused of being alot of those characters in that book....