Re: [CR] Fascination with America, was: Pic of the Day - Hungaria shoes advert 1950

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:49:25 -0400
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Fascination with America, was: Pic of the Day - Hungaria shoes advert 1950
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At 02:12 PM 9/17/06 -0700, Jan Heine wrote:
>The French bike industry worried about the American bike industry,
>apparently poised to take over the world. Rumors circulated that the
>Americans were equipped to make 10,000,000 bikes a year. That easily
>would have supplied the French, German, Dutch and Italian markets
>combined. And with Americans rumored to be so efficient,
>state-of-the-art, etc., the bikes probably were going to be better
>and cheaper than anything European manufacturers had to offer.

And this is how they were made:

http://www.webcastgroup.com/client/start.asp?wid=0670224062155

(Click to view)

John Betmanis
Woodstock, ON
Canada