Re: [CR]What else did they make besides bicycles?

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:20:07 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]What else did they make besides bicycles?
In-reply-to: <20051220045037.17548.qmail@web52013.mail.yahoo.com>
To: r cielec <teaat4p@yahoo.com>
References: <20051220045037.17548.qmail@web52013.mail.yahoo.com>
cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

GB continues to make office furniture.

Durkopp continues to make sewing machines.

Columbia made school desks.

Campagnolo made alloy auto wheels (and corkscrews).

The Davis Sewing Machine Co. originally made decent quality bicycles, then morphed into Huffy.

Schwinn made Excelsior motorcycles (lots of that in Britain).

Reynolds (Tubing Investments) made all kinds of high quality mechanical tubing but also did extensive engineering conracting.

Steyr Daimler Puch made autos, military vehicles and armament.

TA stands for Traction Avant, a front wheel drive auto concept.

BSA made armaments and motorcycles.

Iver Johnson made pistols and guns.

GM made New Departure hubs.

Trek was an appliance distributor?

Medici was an ink company? (Rexart)

Time for bed.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: r cielec
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:50:00 -0000
Subject: [CR]What else did they make besides bicycles?


> Ahoy !

\r?\n>

\r?\n> What has prodded this question is the "Peugot Freres" manual coffee

\r?\n> grinder I have and an over-riding curiousity as how the bicycle

\r?\n> industry fits in the milleau of engineering and manufacturing.

\r?\n> Example:

\r?\n> aircraft alloys being used in the bicycle industry.

\r?\n> Building bicycles does not appear to be an easy path, if any path,

\r?\n> to

\r?\n> wealth. What else did the "in time line" builders do to earn a

\r?\n> living

\r?\n> so they could pratice their craft? If the bike business was

\r?\n> profitable,

\r?\n> the Wright Brothers wouldn't have closed shop in favour of another

\r?\n> venture.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Thanks.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Richard Cielec

\r?\n> Chicago, Illinois

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

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