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The Motor Cycle Magazine 1904


Alphabetical Index -

  • Accumulator Case cracked .... 816, 916
  • — Tips 714, 721, 891
  • Agricultural Hall Show . . 269, 299, 328
  • Albert Brown Trophy 871, 900
  • All-weather Motor Cycle
  • Aluminium Rectifier
  • American Motor Cyclists’ Contests Andrew’s Tricar
  • Anti-skidding Device
  • Ardennes Circuit
  • Ariel Cycle Attachment
  • — Engine
  • — Motor Bicycle
  • Ashburn’s Spring Frame
  • At Olympia
  • Austrian Automobile Club, 338, 1075, 1212, 424, 498
  • Auto Cycle Club, 259, 312, 366, 387, 488, 536, 570, 952, 978, 1085, 1204, 1212, 1214, 1264
  • - Members’ Reliability Trial 924
  • - 1,000 Miles Trials, 778, 779, 797, 832, 886
  • - (Details of the Route, etc.) .... 634, 662, 684, 734
  • - News, 13, 50, 570, 680, 759. 783, 832, 876, 908, 936 630, 853, 927 637,428,472 1023, 1097
  • - Races
  • - Side-slip Trials
  • - Tricar Trials
  • Barnes Forecar 774
  • Bat Spring Frame 1236
  • — Support 1288
  • Beating Record 1073
  • Belgium Motor Cycle Races 732
  • Belt, A Novel Type of 918
  • — and Chain Transmission 1222
  • — Gripping Pulley 794
  • — to Chains, From 765
  • Belts in Theory 550
  • Berlin Motor Cycle Racing 1074
  • Bexhill Motor Races 749
  • Binks Four-cylindered Motor Cycle 987
  • Birmingham M.C.C. 635, 661, 711, 782, 906, 367, 545, 936, 975, 1002, 1054
  • - Dinner 247
  • Birmingham University M.C 608
  • Blackpool Speed Trials 999, 1021
  • Bore and Stroke of Petrol Motors 758, 814
  • Bournemouth (Christmas Special) . . 1273
  • Bowden Oiler and Tank 325
  • Bradbury Forecarriage 264
  • Bradford and County M.C.C 609
  • Brighton Cyclists’ Club 345, 972
  • Bristol Bicycle and Motor Club .... 976
  • British v. Continental Records .... 1274
  • — Motor Cycle Records 10
  • Brookes and Holt Saddle 334
  • Brown and Barlow Carburetter .... 325
  • Brown’s Motor Bike 320
  • Cock’s Back-pedalling Brake 698
  • Collapsable Tricar, A 1094
  • Calderwood’s Belt 918
  • Cambridge University A.C 470
  • Canning Town Races 343, 527
  • Carburetter Adjustment 817
  • Carburetter Management 1069
  • Carburetters Catching Fire 836
  • Cardiff Motor Cycling Club 1253
  • Care of Accumulators 200, 228
  • Catford Cycling Club Hill-climbs, 509, 555, 582
  • Century, My First 248, 249
  • Chain Belt 722
  • Chalon Automatic Carburetter .... 13
  • Chapman's Variable Speed Pulley
  • Charging Accumulators
  • - from a Dynamo
  • - for Nothing 537
  • Charging Board 107
  • Charging Set (Turbine and Dynamo) .... 1014
  • Chase v. J.A.P 764, 838
  • Chase Crystal Palace Show, February 23rd 1904, pp174-176
  • Chateau-Thierry Hill-climb 1047
  • Cheshire . . 561
  • Clayton’s Friction Clutch 310
  • Climbing a 1 in 6 Grade 1049
  • Clyde Water-cooled Motor Cycle
  • Collabsible Tricar
  • - Forecar Frame
  • Combination belt
  • Competition
  • Conference of Automobile Clubs
  • Cooke’s Motor Cycle Seat
  • Cooler for Forecarriage Motor ....
  • Coomer Sidecar with Castor Wheel
  • Cost of Motor Cycling • • •
  • Coupling Attachment (Woodland and Wells)
  • Coventry Motor Cycle Club, 609, 661, 783, 876, 936, 992, 1041, 500, 544
  • — to the Sea • 949
  • Cremorne Carburetter 107, 588
  • Crosland’s Free-drive 40b
  • Croydon Motor Club 1041
  • Crystal Palace Motor Cycle Exhibits, loo, If1
  • Cullen and Bowen Two-stroke Engine
  • Dring’s Friction Clutch 1094
  • Dauphine Auto Club 780
  • Delhi-Bombay Motor Trials 1101
  • Dermatine Belt 1225
  • Design Competition, Two Designs (illustration) 317
  • - Winning Design 137
  • — of Motor Bicycle Frames 1265-6-7
  • Desirable Improvements 136
  • Detachable Motor 757
  • Dourdan Speed Trials 973
  • Dovener (Lieut.) on Bat Motor Cycle 1272
  • Dry Cell 736, 890
  • Durkopp Motor Cycle 908, 1223
  • Dustless Road, A 434
  • — Roads 706
  • East Coast Ride, An 624, 632
  • Eclipse Two-cylinder Motor Cycle, 641
  • Edge’s Attempt to Climb Moel Rammah 1102
  • Edinburgh Show 227
  • Electric Lamp 719
  • Elementary Principles of Ignition, 46
  • Elleham Danish Motor Cycle 884
  • Elliott’s Engine 496
  • Emery and Rodwell Portable Stand 48
  • Engine Dimensions, Their Relation
  • to Speed 1230
  • — Power for Touring Motor Bicycles 180
  • Erade Two-speed Gear 606
  • Exhaust Cut-out 1054
  • — Device 190
  • Experiences with an Air-cooled Tricar 1028
  • —- with a Tandem Attachment .... 204
  • Famous Motor Cycle Racers—
  • — — — — and Record Breakers—
  • G. A. Barnes 891
  • F. W. Chase 402
  • T. H. Tessier 603
  • H. Martin 844
  • J. Van Hooydonk 1085
  • J. F. Crundall 1666
  • Cissac 2547
  • Marius The 3238
  • Bert Yates 4789
  • Farmer’s Experience with a Motor Bicycle 1067
  • Features and Improvements in Electric Ignition 212
  • Feldburg Hill-climb 615
  • Fletcher’s Portable Stand 480
  • Four Motor Cyclists to Land’s End 404
  • France Notes 663
  • Frankfort on the Main Motor Cycle Races 605
  • Freestone’s Variable Speed Gear . . 791
  • Free-wheel Clutch Cover 664, 719
  • French General’s Opinion 733
  • — Military Motor Cycle Relay Ride 438
  • — Motor Cycling Club Banquet . . 1223
  • Fuller Dry Battery (Constituents) 696, 1287
  • F.N. Patent Lubricator 892
  • Gamage Acetylene Lamp 786
  • Gaillon Hill-climb 1048, 1080
  • Gamage Motor Cycle (illustration). . 93
  • — Tandem 236
  • Garrard Parcel Delivery Tricar .... 865
  • — Tandem (New Design) .... 113, 216
  • German Motor Cyclists’ Race 615
  • Glasgow Motor Cycle Club .... 846, 935
  • — — — Races 683
  • Gloucester Automobile Co. New 7 h.p. Motor Cycle 882
  • Goodlad’s Speed Indicator .... 842, 1199
  • Grinding in Valves 327
  • Grouvelle and Arquembourg Carburetter 1200
  • Guigoz’s Two-cycle Motor 1044
  • Guildford Cycling and Motor Club. . 1122
  • Guy and Wheeler Picrator 107
  • Halle Spring Wheel
  • Hall’s Spray Carburetter .
  • Hamilton Motor
  • Hardy’s Waterjoint
  • Hawkin’s Spark Governor
  • Heath’s Hydraulic Brake
  • Hertfordshire A.C 710,
  • Higgins and Murray Lined Pulley . .
  • Hillsdon Tandem
  • Hints on Motor Cycle Tyre Repairs, 1
  • Hints and Tips
  • Holding’s Leather, ete., Clothes . . .
  • Holloway’s Spring Footrests . .
  • Homburg, On the Road to ....
  • Hood’s Handle-bar Control ....
  • Hopper Water-cooled Bicycle . .
  • Horse-power Diagram
  • — and Weight of Motor Cycles
  • Hour Record Broken
  • Howard Fitch Pulley
  • How I Broke the Ice won the M.C.C. Gold Medal. .
  • How many Horse-power ? ...
  • Hub Two-speed Gear
  • Hubbard Forecar and Gear
  • Hull and District Auto Club
  • — Motor Cycle Show
  • Humber Free Engine Clutch
  • — Olympia Tandem
  • - A Run on the. . .
  • Hunter’s Flexible Chain Drive . . .
  • Hydraulic Brake
  • Ideal Motor Cycle, An 1278
  • Ignition, Improved High-tension . . 255
  • Imperial Motor Bicycle 915
  • Impressions of the Stanley Show, 1186, 1216,1254
  • Improving the Contact Breaker .... 914
  • Improving the Motor Cycle Engine .... 450, 473
  • Indicating the Motor Cycle Engine 471
  • Indicator Diagrams from Small High-speed Petrol Motors 422
  • International Motor Cycle Cup Race, 828, 853, 873, 874, 897, 926, 930, 953, 1275
  • Ipswich Athletic Sports 894
  • Ipswich Motor Cycle Races 658
  • Irish End to End Record 988
  • Ixion Two-cycle Engine 13
  • Jelley’s Friction Clutch 650, 892
  • J.A.P. Automatic Lubricator 12
  • Jehu Tandem 229
  • Jones Motor Bicycle 336
  • — Speedometer 94
  • — Two-speed Gear 383, 588
  • Kelecom Motor, The 57
  • Kerry, A Run on a 712
  • — Connecting Rods of Two-cylinder Engine 1193
  • Knocking in Engine 672
  • Lagonda Tricar
  • Lamps and Light
  • Land’s End to John-o’-Groat’s Reliability Run Record, 623, 643, 754,
  • Laurin and Klement Four-cylinder Motor Bicycle 1052,
  • Lawrence and Field Motor Cycle Frame
  • Leeds Cycle and Motor Show
  • Leicestershire A.C
  • Lessons from the 1,000 Miles Trials
  • Life of a Belt
  • Light Mount, A (Motor’s Freak) . .
  • Lightweight Machine ,
  • Lincolnshire Auto Club • 635,
  • Lincoln Wheelers’ Motor Cycle Race
  • Lithanode Acid-tight Cells
  • Liverpool Cycle and Motor Traders Association
  • Liverpool Motor Club, 545, 636, 661, 677, 846, 876, 1041, Cycle Races Cyclists, Two Shows.
  • Lloyd’s Free Engine Lloyd’s Motor-Cycle Engine
  • London to Edinburgh Run, 386, 423,
  • Long and Short of it
  • Long and Short Wheelbase
  • Longuemare Carburetter
  • — — 1905
  • Looking Rather Forward
  • Low Power and Efficiency, Speed and Brag
  • Lubricator (Fabrique Nationale) . .
  • Luggage Carrying
  • Lyons Sidecarriage

LEADERETTES—

  • The Inland Revenue, Motor Cycles and Incensing. Lighting More Haste Less Speed.
  • ments 25-26
  • Reliability Trials. Motor Cycling, 49-50
  • Motor Cycle Competitions. Points Needing Explanation 73-74
  • “ The Motor Cycle ” Design Competition. The Task of Judging.
  • A New Motor Tandem 99-100
  • A Word of Advice
  • Preparing for Easter
  • Red Rear Lights
  • A Motor Cycle Exhibition The 1904 Club Trials. Rear Red
  • Lights. Double Machines in the
  • Road Trials 215-216
  • — Carriage Tax and Motor Cycles. Further Arguments on the Same Subject. Another Confirmation 239-240
  • A Commercial Hindrance. The
  • Literal Interpretation. Rear Red
  • Lights 263-264
  • The Motor Cycle Show. Difficulties in the Way
  • Annual General Meeting of A.C.C. Auto Cycle Club. Electrical Railroads
  • The Side-slip Question. Mixed Shows
  • Motor Cyclists and Volunteering.
  • Reckless Driving 407-408
  • The Dust Question. Motor Cycle Clubs 433
  • A Commonsense Decision. Side-slip Devices 456-457
  • Motor Cycles and Side-slip. Horsepower and Weight
  • A Conviction at Any Cost. Man or Machine
  • The Steering of Forecarriages. An
  • Important Decision
  • — Ideal Motor Cycle, The
  • Motive Power
  • — Catford Hill-climb. The Auto Cycle Club Trials
  • Skilful Driving. The Good Old Days
  • Two-seated Motor Cycles. A Handy Vehicle. The Future of the Motor Cycle
  • Carburation. Man v. Mechanism.
  • The Perfect Carburetter .. 651-652
  • Official Tests. Springless Tricycles.
  • Trade and the Trials. Refining the Motor Bicycle 675-676
  • The Motor Cycle from a Business
  • Point of View
  • — Weight Question Again
  • Tricar Possibilities. The Sunrising Climb
  • Our Numbers
  • Sociable Motor Cycling. A Comparison of Cost The Ideal Machine 747-748
  • The Thousand Miles Trials. Weight Carrying Capacity 771-772
  • Motor Cycle Lamps. The 1,000
  • Miles Trials 795-796
  • A Tricar Trial. Next Year’s Trials 993
  • Lessons from the Trials. Our
  • Articles Confirmed 819
  • Double Machines. The A.C.C. An
  • International M.C.C 820
  • Motor Cycle Clubs. Team Competitions 845
  • Small Car Trials. International M.C. Race. Comparison of the Machines 869
  • Tricycles. 110 versus 2,200 lbs. 893
  • Road Monopoly. Petrol Consumption Trials 919
  • Winter Riding. Protection from the Weather 945
  • Tricar versus Small Car. The Pros
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  • Manchester M.C.C., 330, 660. 709. 738, 757, 782, 812, 846, 907, 935, 1049,
  • Manchester Motor Show
  • Mars Water-cooled Tricar
  • Matchless Magneto
  • M.C.C. Dinner (illustrated)
  • — Fixtures
  • — 200 Miles Non-stop Trials, 565, 566, 585
  • — Passenger Trial 636, 653
  • Mechanical v. Automatic Inlet Valves 590

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  • - Silencers • 521 —
  • - Union of Ireland, 679, 727, 740, 782, 812, 837, 846, 876, 906, 952, 1002
  • Motor Cycling Club, 105, 212, 265, 285, 386. 429, 445, 554, 711, 741, 829, 871, 1041,
  • - Annual Dinner
  • - Run to Wisley
  • - (Team Competition) 829,
  • - and Photography
  • - for Ladies
  • - in Hardy’s Country
  • — — Round Stirling
  • — and Muscle
  • — Tour through the Wye Valley, A
  • — Tricyclists Meet at Market Rasen
  • — Volunteer Corps 222.
  • Mountaineering on a Motor Bicycle 1091
  • New Brighton M.C. Races
  • — National Tricar 858
  • — Revolution Stand 588
  • — York Policeman 1272
  • Newspaper Motor Cyclist Interviewed 851
  • Nice-Cannes Reliability Trial 605
  • Nitric Acid Batteries 843
  • Noble Motor Cycle 43
  • Notes from France, 198, 245, 295, 313, 344, 365, 390, 409, 464, 494, 534, 1226
  • — on Training 392
  • Horse-power and Transmission 78 Side-slip 1281
  • Northamptonshire A.C. 976, 1122, 1270
  • Northern Motor Cycle Trial 660
  • Nottingham Motor Cyclists 739
  • N.S.U. Motor and Contact Breaker.. 236
  • Numbering Device 770
  • Off Day, An 784
  • On a Motor Cycle at 76 Mile's an Hour 1024
  • One of the Kings of the Motor Cycle 321
  • On the Road to Homburg 612
  • - with M.O.V . ’ ’ 904
  • Open Questions and Notes Concerning Ignition 380
  • Origin and Development of the Tricar 1000
  • Ormonde Forecar (new pattern) .... 884
  • Osborne’s Free Engine Pulley .... 736
  • Four-cylinder F.N 1269
  • Ostend Week 701
  • Overheating 844

OCCASIONAL COMMENTS by “Ixion”

  • Amateur’s Experience. Tricar Frames 1040
  • Heat Waves. Oil. Suggestion . . 991
  • M.O.V. Again. Winter Clothing.
  • High-powered Tricars 1258
  • Adjustable Operating Levers .... 626
  • End to End Record. The Man, not the Machine 856
  • Nursing. Provincial Growls. Had Some 857
  • A Trade Indictment. Motorphobia. Testimonials 889
  • Brown Cup. British Engines. A.C.C. and M.C.C. New Patterns .... 909
  • Mechanical Inlet Valve. Timing Gear Details. Audible Warning. History of a Motor Cycle. That Puzzling Ignition 934
  • The Irrepressible Mr. Pennell. Misleading Advertisements 960
  • Twin-cylinder Engines. Competition Stories. Eagle Tandem. Car v. Cycle 1013
  • Bad Adjustments. Driving under Difficulties 1062
  • A Dream of the Show. A Red Letter Day. Bolide Redivivus. Belt Drives with Two Speeds. Motor Cycle Camping 1153-4
  • Horse-power. Tricar Development.
  • Back-slip. Tricar Upkeep .... 1221
  • Spring Frames on Tricars. A Social Three-guinea Club. To Test Motors, not Men 1282
  • Paris Automobile Show 1238-1250
  • Paris-Bordeaux Reliability Trials . .
  • Parsons Non-skid for Motor Cycles
  • - Portable Vulcaniser, A
  • Pedalless Motor Bicycle, 2,500 on a
  • Pedals or Footrests
  • Perfecta Lamp, The
  • Perry’s Chain Belt
  • Personal Experiences in the 1,000 Miles Trials
  • Peterborough A.C. Reliability Trials, 469, 607-8, 677, 712, 533, 544, 558,
  • — and District M.C
  • Peto Cadette Batteries
  • Plea for the Switch Handle
  • Phoenix Three-wheeler
  • — Trimo Attachment
  • - for Two Ladies
  • — Two-speed Gear
  • Pickering Spring Handle-bar
  • Piston Displacement of Motor Cycle Engines
  • Pleasures of Motor Cycling
  • Plymouth Motor Races
  • Policeman and a Motor Cyclist ....
  • Portmarnock Motor Races
  • — Speed Trials
  • Possibilities of a Double-seated Motor Tricycle
  • - Air-cooling
  • Practical Motor Cycling
  • Prested Battery 188
  • Prestwick and Co.’s Roller Worm Drive 1114
  • Priest, W., on the Weight Question 1112
  • Primary Battery for Charging Accumulators 707, 730
  • Pump for Motor Cycles 188
  • Purser's Non-skidding Tyre Tread . . 908
  • Quad, American Racing
  • Quadrant Tricar, Improved .... 602,
  • Questions and Replies, 18-20, 36-37, 69-70, 96-98, 121-123, 144-146, 162-164 (illustrated), 185-187, 209-211, 296-298, 331-333, 350-351, 375-377, 399-400, 448-449, 476-477 (illustrated), 506-507, 526-527, 575-576, 621-622
  • Railway Motor Cycle 666
  • Raleighette, Improved 665
  • Raleigh Two-speed Gear 480
  • Reader’s Experience, A 38
  • Records at Glasgow 810
  • — to June 27th, 1904 604,832
  • Registration Numbers 740, 859
  • — Numbering and Licensing 34
  • Relay Ride in France 640
  • Reply to Rotator, by Jules Gobiet 17
  • Retrospect of 'The Motor Cycle' 1,000 Miles Trial 854
  • Revolette (New Revolution Tricar) 1256
  • Rex Frame Improvement 770
  • Rexette Two-speed Gear 382, 439
  • Ride Across Algeria, A 64
  • Riding Hints, by C. W. Brown, 91,364, 592
  • Riley Tricar 568, 850
  • Robion Bevel Gear Transmission . . 48
  • Root and Clarke Two-speed Gear . . 865
  • Roux Internal Wheel Drive 454
  • Rover Automatic Carburetter .... 667
  • Rover Tricar (new model) 695, 1198
  • Royal Ajax Motor Bicycle 496
  • Sangster’s Coupling Attachment . . 432
  • Scottish A.C 636, 812
  • Scott’s Two-speed Gear and Clutch 1279 Scout Engine 43
  • Season on a Triumph 31
  • Semmering Hill-climb 929, 992
  • Service Sparking Plug 1257
  • Spring Frames . . . .619, 620, 664, 671, 794
  • Sheffield and District A.C 558, 935
  • Side-slip Competition 197
  • Silencers 328
  • Silencer Improvements 863
  • — Experiment 388
  • Silver, T., on a Quadrant 81
  • Simpkins Collapsable Forecar 106
  • — Belt Chain Wheel 642
  • Simplex Motor Cycle Stand 1191
  • Simms Charging- Apparatus 791
  • Simpson’s Detachable Propelling Apparatus
  • Singer Two-cylinder Tricar 884
  • Small Two-seated Cars and Motor Cycles 1232
  • Sociable Attachment, Hilton’s .... 1199
  • Some Motors I Have Known 63 8
  • — Narrow Escapes 39
  • South East Essex A.C 608
  • Southern M.C., 500, 544, 608-9, 660, 677, 710, 783, 846, 906, 936, 1002, 1215
  • South Shields Auto Club 936
  • Sparking Plug, New 664
  • Spring and Leather Belt 908
  • Stand (patent) 650
  • — and Carrier 818
  • Starley’s Motor Cycle Vehicle 384
  • Stanley Show .... 1103, 1123, 1155, 1179
  • — Silencer 1257
  • Starley’s Steering Device 606
  • Starting Devices (Bourcart’s) 868
  • Steam Motor Bicycle 199
  • Steering Device for Motor Cycles . . 606
  • — of Forecarriages 610
  • Stephen’s Sidecar,with Castor Wheel 1236
  • Stocks’ Worm Spring Drive 1288
  • Stranded : An Incident of our Novice Days 397
  • Stubbs’ Two-speed Gear 528
  • Successful Demonstration 1055
  • Suggestions for the 1904 Motor Cycle Reliability Trials 330
  • Sydney to Melbourne Reliability Trial 1077
  • Readers’ Impressions of 25,000 Miles on Motor Cycles. . . . 6-7, 32
  • Tandem Design Winner (illustration) 617
  • Telescopic Footrest 223
  • Terminal Clip (Lycett’s) 1075
  • — Connections 1068
  • Testing Motor Cycle Engines 685
  • Thames Valley Motor Club 294
  • Theory and Practice of Motor Cycling 54, 129, 152, 177, 196
  • Third of a Litre Trials 974, 995
  • Three Hundredweight Limit 774
  • — Men on the Mote 132
  • Thrilling Sensation 104
  • Through Japan on a Motor Cycle . . 686
  • Toolbag (Dunhill’s) 865
  • Trailer, The Motor Cycle 718
  • Trent Tricar 641
  • Tricar Frame Construction 1117
  • — Trials 1023, 1046, 1079
  • Tricars at the Stanley ....
  • — of To-day
  • Tricycle Axle
  • — Design. B. H. Davies
  • Triumph Engine
  • — Interrupter and Switch Trouble
  • Tunbridge Wells Motor Cycle Racing
  • Turin Motor Show
  • Twelve Hours’ Motor Cycle Match
  • Two Cycle Motor
  • — Hundred Miles a Day in a Trailer
  • Two-speed Gears for Motor Cycles . .
  • Twyfe Carburetter
  • Tyre and Other Hints
  • Ulster Centre M.C.U.I 609
  • Unofficial 200 Miles Reliability Run 1276
  • Universal Silencer 236.
  • Unpuncturable Tyre, An 72
  • Up Westerham on a Trimo 384
  • Utility of the Modern Motor Cycle, The 1272
  • Valves and Contact Breakers 674
  • Valve Gear 918, 968
  • Ventoux Hill-climb 852
  • Vesta Magneto, The 106
  • Veteran Motor Cyclist 119
  • Vienna Lady Motor Cyclists 1277.
  • Vigneaux Spring Fork 236
  • Wall’s Friction Clutch 168
  • Water-cooling a Quad 1064
  • Webb and Hall’s Silencer 4$
  • Weights of Motor Cycles and Parts 281
  • Werner Tricar 1271
  • Westerham Hill on a Trimo 384
  • Whitley Engine 666
  • Wightman’s Cooling Fan 1222
  • Wilkinson’s Turbine Carburetter .. 139
  • Windermere, Around 446
  • Winter Motor Cycling 954
  • With Four Motor Cyclists to Land’s End 404-5
  • Worm-driven Motor Cycles 124
  • Wyatt’s Variable Speed Gear 286
  • Yorkshire Auto Club, 608, 660, 679, 936.
  • Young’s Cooling Fan
  • — Tricar, with Fan Cooling

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