This advertisement from an 1883 DC Directory leaves a lot of questions. US Manufacturing is not listed in any directory before or after, so it seems to have been a brief enterprise and I could find nothing else about it. What happened to them? And what is the "Quick Steed"? I assume it's the two-person adult tricycle pictured, but it's not clear.
Interesting that physicians are uniquely called out, but it makes sense. No ambulances, and time-critical work to be done.
The address puts it on the NE corner of 24th and Pennsylvania where the Embassy of Spain now sits.
Do the women get to wear bilegular garments?
Posted by: SJE | May 09, 2016 at 12:46 PM
Funny you should ask, when researching this I learned that these kinds of three and four wheel bikes were primarily developed for the use of women as they allowed for biking in a skirt. That way they could ride bikes without having to allure men with the site of their ankles or shock the community with the wearing of such bilegular garments.
Posted by: washcycle | May 09, 2016 at 01:40 PM
Interesting.
Posted by: SJE | May 10, 2016 at 12:26 PM
That's Bryce Harper's great-grandfather, losing his hat.
Posted by: Steve O | May 13, 2016 at 04:08 PM