Cycling Book of Maintenance [1st edition, 1945]

Temple Press, n.d. ( 1945). Octavo, original pictorial wraps, b&w illus, complete with fold-out blue-print plan ("showing the components of a Modern Bicycle"), pp xxxii, 60, ii. grubby with minor marks wraps, lightly toned (wartime paper), contemporary white sticker over "First Edition" and price of '2/- net' to lower front cover. Very good condition.

War-time publication. Complete guide to bicycles of the era, with many illustrations and advertisements including Royal Enfield Cycles, Hercules Cycle, James Cycle Co. Brooks saddles, Norman Cycles Ltd., Sun Cycles, Dayton Cycle Co and some mentioning 'war-time' tyres. Item #99852

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