One of the features of the annual Sulon de I'Automobile, just opened at the Grand P: is the devolopment of auxiliary motors bicycles, Tf we may believe slat the makers tell us, it is practicable. nowadays to hitch one of these miniature motors on to an ordinary bicycle and let it do the work. The "smallest of—these engines is rated at half a horse power. Some are fitted fo the handle bars, others at the back of the saddle, and others again in the normal position, the power being conveyed from the engine to the cycle by belts about as thick as stont string. Such tov-like motors seem strange to English eras. but! it must he remembered that France is.a country in which the bicycle is a@ cheon and nonular means of transport and nat looked down upon as it is in England. The; sight of a captain or a major in
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