Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba free. Press bicycle Parade promises weird effects ancient and lira Modem Cycle styles hundreds preparing to com Pete in big event saturday Wiki Only one Day before the Bis Parade tomorrow afternoon Are Rushing to bicycle Deal ers. Boy scout Headquarters and bicycle week Headquarters 502 Klec tric railway Chambers to enter their names at contestants for the Many prizes on View in Stiles and Humphries window Portage Avenue and main Street. The Parade promises to show Winnipeg All there is to be seen in the Way of expert bicycle riding1, expert unit work by groups of boy scouts competing for the grand prize and exhibitions of ingenuity in the of costumes and decorations in the various classes each a first prize of a bicycle. Dealers too Are preparing their j entries ancient specimens of big wheeled bicycles Wilira modern Tan j dem machines with scats for As Many As four riders special floats i on bicycles and what More the Par Acle alone will dealers Are keeping the secrets of their Spe Tacu entries strictly to themselves. J the air plane in which Premier nor i Ris will ride leading the Parade from the air is All ready and in perfect condition the Canadian air j Craft company announced yesterday. Captain a. O. Thompson the Pilot has had to follow some pretty straight courses in France and keep an imag Inary line in the air just As closely As a Street car follows the tracks so it won t be difficult for him to follow the Street at the heart of the Squadron commander of one of aircraft company declared. Participants in the Parade will be Mars called on water Street East of main Street at 1.45 . Saturday and Sharp at o clock will Start South on main Street to Broadway. They will follow Broadway to Sherbrook Street Sherbrook Street North to por Taffe Avenue. Portage Avenue East to main Street main Street North to Avenue will turn and then so ii Outh on main Street to Market Square where the judges will announce their decisions and award the Many prizes. One year old plane business grows fast Short and easy Way our pay As you kide plan makes it easy for you to o a Massey a o g u a r a n t e e d a t i s f a c t i 0 n do it now open evenings pm Jess Advance May 15th." Dominion Cycle company 224-226 Logan Venus acting1on the principle never make promises which you can not make Good the Canadian aircraft company has gradually and steadily gained the Confidence of the people of Winnipeg and has made successful and growing concern out of a Bumble and quiet beginning. In the fall of last year capt g. A. Thompson and capt. A. L. Cuffe tried to Start an air plane company. They succeeded after some difficulty in interesting several business men and bought two Curtiss planes ground for an Ai drome and hangar at sit. Charles. They then took Pas sengers up on Joy rides. The Early Advance of Winter did not enable them to do More than carry several Hundred passengers but the firm had already made Good financially. Dur ing the Winter under the management of f. E. Cole president More peo ple took shares and soon Many of Winnipeg s bes t business men were shareholders. It was a simple matter then to enlarge the company and in addition shares were Sola in order to buy five Avro machines which capt. Cuffe was sent to England to Pur Chas e. The first shipment of avros has already arrived and the first Avro has to uen the air wednesday. Before they had crossed the at lactic two of the planes wore sold to the Edmonton aircraft company and a Cable sent immediately by or. Cole to capt. Cufley to replace the order. This seas on in addition to the two Curtiss planes operated last year there will be the five avros the first of which has made its trial flight yesterday with capt. F. To. Stevens on As Pilot. Capt. Steven son was taken on by the firm at the beginning of the season when he re turned to Winnipeg from Russia where he was sent after the armis Tice. Thus in addition to Many months in France capt. Stevenson has months experience in Russia where he was still attached to the . Capt. G. A. Thompson and capt. A. L. Cuffe its two Pioneer pilots were the first to any planes Over Winnipeg. They flew last fall incl carried some Hundred intrepid win nip Eggers among them mayor Gray who is so fond of going up in the air that he flies at the slightest excuse. He is probably quite jealous of Premier non is who is to have a Long flight saturday. I capt. Thompson has an enviable War record having been with Royal flying corps since and finally considered so excellent an the accompanying picture shows one of the first two wheeled machines seen in Scotland which was made entirely by hand by Thomas fair Greenlaw Berkshire in 1sog. Or. Fail Bairn came to Winnipeg in 18s3, and now resides at 20s Selkirk Avenue. Three and four wheeled machines wore in use when i made or. Fairbairn said but two wheeled ones were considered an impossibility. I was serving my apprenticeship As an Engineer and happened to read one Day that the late Prince Imperial of Franco had been seen Riding a two wheeled bicycle in the gardens of the Tuil eries. I determined that i would have one too. It As constructed of Wood and Iron and except for the two Iron hoops which i used to form the wheel rims. I. Made every ;