Manufactured by Thomas & Sons, Rambler Cycle Works, Mount Street, Burnie Tasmania (opposite The Times Office).
A MOTOR CYCLE TEST.
Motorists cannot get better than Thomas' Rambler Precision 4 ¼ h.p., or Rambler T.D.C. 3 ½ h.p. motor cycles, which have been through by road to Waratah without one mishap. The first motor cycles to succeed in spite of the recent rains. W. Thomas and Son, of the Rambler Cycle and Motor Works, Burnie are the builders, whose prices are the lowest and whose machines are absolutely the best, as proved by the two riders who rode through to Waratah.
The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times, Tue 25 Feb 1913 ( Trove NLA)
The business was purchased by Alex Osborne in 1915 and became Radium Cycle Works
N.B. Even in the 1970s the road from the NW coast to Waratah was daunting, as one who rode it many times, and was extraordinarily fortunate to walk away from one memorable episode which bent the frame of my CB500F in 17 places, may attest. In 1913 it would have been a goat track. Ed.
Ah, memories. A year or two later, not far from there on a beach on the West Coast, I failed to see a washout until the last moment. Didn't walk away from that one. Bike survived unscathed. Same bike, plunged off a bridge into a dry creekbed with just rocks to land on. Blacked out (as I always do) just before landing face down with my open-face helmet. Not a scratch. Bike stayed on the bridge. That would have been somewhere near Wynyard.
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