Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company
Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company based in Torrington, Connecticut built bicycles from 1888-1900.
At one time, Eagle had a capacity to manufacture 20,000 to 30,000 bicycles annually.[1] The company promoted some of their unique features such as aluminum rims and inner tube tires, which are easily detached and repaired.[2] They were one of the earliest to use cold-swaging on the frame joints. Eagle built high wheels including a 48", 50" and 52" inch high wheel in the 1880s. They weighed 35 to 50 pounds and cost $40 to $150.
In 1890, Frank E. Weaver made one of the first ever USA transcontinental bicycle trips (Thomas Stevens has claims to the first in 1884) on a 48" Eagle bicycle. Mr. Weaver supplied periodic reports on the New Haven to San Francisco cross-country trip to Bicycling World, LAW Bulletin and New Haven Palladium.[3]
References
- ^ The Torrington Register Souvenir Edition: An Illustrated and Descriptive Exposition of Torrington, Connecticut, 1897. Register Printing Company. 1897-01-01.
- ^ Machine-History.Com http://www.machine-history.com/Eagle%20Bicycles%201896 Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine Machine-History.Com
- ^ TheWheelMan http://www.thewheelmen.org/sections/americanjourneys/shiningsea/regviews/weaver.jpg
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