CCM makes hockey skates.
Steve Leitgen La Crosse, WI
On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:29 PM, StuartMX4@aol.com wrote:
> I've lost track of which firms have been mentioned. Have we had Rudge,
> Sun
> and Norman whose motorcycles one still sees from time to time? And if
> we go
> back further, early motorcycles included Ariel, Bradbury, Coventry
> Eagle, Eadie,
> Excelsior, Hillman, Humber, James, Matchless, New Hudson, Quadrant,
> Riley,
> Rover, Singer, Triumph. I must have forgotten some. You'll notice
> seven car
> makers there as well. In the early days, cycle shops who may or may
> not have
> made their own frames would retail under their own name, powered two
> wheelers
> from the mysterious Continent but I think it would be stretching
> things to
> include those. Oh, and Rotrax, of course, made speedway bikes.
>
> As to the gun connections, didn't Eadie buy a company that had a
> contract
> with the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock to make rifle parts?
> As a dyed
> in the wool Victorian opportunist, he appropriated the Enfield name
> and
> later added 'Royal'. Have I got that right?
>
> Stuart Tallack living in the past in West Sussex