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| Text on Button | Relay |
| Image Description | Red script text on top of an illustration of a blue bicycle tire on a white background. |
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(union bug) Buttons made by The Whitehead & Hoag Co., Newark, N.J., Patented. July 17, 1894, April 14th, 1886, July 21, 1896. |
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| Additional Information | Relay Mfg. Company was a bicycle manufacturer out of Reading, Pennsylvania, in the 1890s. The Relay Racer was sold in 1892 for $125 and weighed only 32 lbs. J. Geo Ziegler, an inventor, headed both the Relay Mfg. Company and the Tinkham Cycle Company. Together, the two companies produced one of the first passenger tricycles or pedaled rickshaws. The Relay Mfg. Company discontinued making bicycles in 1899 and was renamed the Relay Motor Company. |
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Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Comp. by Morton L. Montgomery .... (1909). United States: J. H. Beers & Company. Iron Trade Review. (1895). United States: (n.p.). The Online Bicycle Museum. (2020). 1895 Tinkham Passenger Tricycle. Retrieved from https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1897-tinkham-tricycle-rickshaw/ The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review. (1892, Feb 10). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/PvlYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=rel… bicycle company reading pennsylvania. Ziegler, J. G., & Meigs, G. W. (1892, May 3). US474327A - Bicycle. Retrieved from https://patents.google.com/patent/US474327 |
| Catalog ID | AD0685 |