Identifier: wheelswheelingin00port (find matches)
Title: Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Luther Henry
Subjects: Cycling Bicycles
Publisher: Boston, Wheelman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Loop-frame Tricycle. whose general outline resembles that of a bath chair,two equal-sized wheels running one on each side ofthe rider, with a steering handle, exactly similar tothat of an invalids bath chair, actuating the smallguiding wheel in front. Several variations of this styleof machine were introduced with indifferent success,notably the Centaur, Premier, and Coventry Express,but the machine which made the first sensation in thisdirection was the Salvo, invented by Starley Brothers,of St. Johns Works, Coventry. Originally it was io8 WHEELS AND WHEELING. introduced under the title of The Salvo Quadricycle,it having in fact four wheels; but it was essentially atricycle, the fourth wheel being carried clear of theground, and only serving as a preventive of the ridertipping over backward; literally, therefore, quadri-
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Two-track Tricycle. cycle was the correct name for it; but as there werenever more than three wheels on the ground at once,it was, and is, rightly classed as a tricycle; and since,among other recent improvements which the machinehas undergone, the size of the rear safety wheel hasbeen materially reduced, the long name has been TRICYCLES. 109 abbreviated, and the machine is now known as theSalvo Tricycle. This type of tricycle had large driving wheels—48 or 50 inches, a front steering wheel of about 18inches, a side steering handle; the chain was placed atone side; they were double driving, and the framewas of the loop variety. Several machines of thistype were built in this country, such as the Victor,Columbia, and Otto. At a little later date, the frame

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