NEWS FROM THE PAST

A NEW INDUSTRY - “T” CYCLE WORKS IN TOOWOOMBA TREVETHAN BROS. ENTERPRISE

The advent of a new industry in Toowoomba in the shape of a Cycle Factory was briefly referred to a few issues ago, and we are now enabled to give fuller particulars. The experience gained by Mr Thos Trevethan during his four years travel in the Southern Colonies and Western Australia has not been lost upon him, and his powers of observation, together with the possession of a mechanical turn of mind has enabled him to store a fund of knowledge that will now stand to him, and we trust assist him in establishing and conducting a successful industry in our midst. During his absence he has made a special study of the cycle, and has had the benefit of working side by side with some of the best imported experts in the South, so that he returns with not only his own experience, but the combined experience of the best men from the Old World. That he should return to his native town, and prefer it in which to settle and establish an industry to any other town in the colonies is the highest compliment he could pay us, and it only now remains for local residents to loyally reciprocate by patronising in a practical manner the local-made article in the shape of a “T” Bicycle.

A workshop, and every convenience for the manufacture of the cycles has been erected at the Trevethan Coach Works, Neil-street, and no expense has been spared in laying down a plant complete in every detail, and equal to any of the best in the colonies.

Visiting the workshop yesterday we were first shown the material in the rough. It is now possible to have any part or parts of a bicycle – from a cotter pin to a new main bar – fitted or replaced in a style unsurpassed in any city of Australia.

Darling Downs Gazette, July 22, 1899