Saturday 28 March 2020

Intersession


THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, January 6  
SYNED wrote this beautiful prayer during wartime in 1918 – just before the Spanish flu caused a global pandemic.

Lord! In the travail of this solemn hour
When war-wolves stand with dripping fangs and bare;
Faced with the utmost of the foeman’s power,
We kneel in prayer.

Our manhood’s chosen lie in noisome trenches,
Thine Image turned to writhing human mud;
A world laid waste, where at High Heaven blenches
And earth weeps blood.

A great cry fills the land, Our maids and mothers
In tearless sorrow keen their splendid dead;
Peasant and peer alike mourn sons and lovers –
Uncomforted.

And mourn the nerveless wrecks, the halt, the blinded –
Lives Thou hast spared we cannot now tell why.
Can we forget when day by day reminded
‘Tis good to die.

Dare we forgive the Hate that follows ever
Women and babes, from land and sky and sea;
Till it is crushed in one supreme endeavor –
And man is free.

Lord! We have paid the price of careless years,
Years that have sapped our strength and left us cold.
Now Death reaps on: while Youth, inured to tears,
Grows hard and old.

Yet greatly right, we do not fear the wrong.
In certain faith that wrong must yield to right.
For, though dark clouds hang overhead, ere long
Shall come a light.

Led by the Star that marks this fateful hour,
We stand before Thee with a naked sword
Uplifted. Trusting in Thy Name and Power –
Hear us, Oh, Lord!

Read more about the Spanish flu which caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately during the final months of World War I in 1918.
https://www.livescience.com/spanish-flu.html

Friday 27 March 2020

South Africans likes Singing


CAPE ARGUS - 1939, January 12
In an interview with a representative of The Argus, Margaret Roux (Mrs. CWF Atkinson) said: “There is a living for Teachers but not for Professional Singers in South Africa. The reaction to canned music has set in.
For some years after the radio became part of the furnishing of almost every home, music teachers found it difficult to make a living. People wanted to listen to music, not to make it, and they discouraged their children from learning to sing and to play an instrument.
“But all this is changing. The desire to make music is a very common one, and those who have heard good music want the enjoyment of making it themselves.
“In the Transvaal 18 months ago, I had more singing pupils than I could take, and the choral society I conducted had 70 enthusiastic members. At Springs, where there are many Cornish and Welsh miners, I had a male choir of 30, and they were all tremendously keen. The love of music is inborn in the Celtic people, and the most perfect radio music will never discourage them from practicing it.”
Teachers of singing can make a very good livelihood in South Africa, says Mrs. Atkinson. But she has no faith in the possibilities of a remunerative career for the professional singer in this country. The fees are infinitely smaller than they are in the European countries, where cities have large, musically educated populations. In South Africa these small fees are almost swallowed up by the travelling that the singer has to do in getting from one centre of population to another.
Mrs. Atkinson returned this week from London where she has had a most successful year singing and broadcasting. She was greatly impressed by the number of small choirs and madrigal societies that had been formed in England in recent years.

The September international crisis affected musicians adversely, said Mrs. Atkinson. Many bookings were cancelled and agents have been slow to arrange other engagements for their artists.
Tonight Mrs. Atkinson will sing with the Municipal Orchestra in the City Hall and at the end of the week she will leave for Johannesburg. She had expected to make her home in England, but owing to her husband’s ill-health, has decided to settle in South Africa.

Thursday 19 March 2020

MOIR’S - Jelly & Ice Cream

CAPE ARGUS - 1906, December 5 

CAPE ARGUS - 1906, December 5
Professor TR Thobs from Uitenhage, SA, Champion Endurance Club Swinger of the World, tendered his sincere thanks to Moir & Son for the benefit bestowed upon him in his last World record of 50 hours and 17 minutes. During his training and swinging in 1905, he was kept going continually with jugs of Moir’s Jelly, and therefore he recommended Moir’s Jellies very highly for any branch of Athletics whatever.

In the word Flavour rests one of the secrets that has made MOIR’S so deservedly popular. They’re rich and fruitier, full of flavour…. Made from the finest and purest ingredients …. The best always.
Jellies with the PLUS flavour, delicious fruity flavours that are daintily different …. Characteristic of the fruit itself …. Refreshing, smooth and appetising …. They taste good and are good for you. 
FreZol makes the home-made Ice Cream that created such enthusiasm …. The ice cream that people talk about …. It is delicious flavoured with a fine, smooth, velvety texture …. Delightful to the palate …. Ask your grocer for the new BUTTERSCOTCH flavour …. You’ll like it!


CAPE ARGUS - 1939, January 28


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Made from the world’s best food gelatin, Moir’s Jellies set so much quicker and never fail to set. You will find the fruitier, richer flavor in no other jelly.
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CAPE ARGUS - 1939, December 12
Preferred – The Fresh Fruity Flavours of Moir’s
FLAVOUR: In this word rests one of the secrets that has made MOIR’S do deservedly popular. They’re rich and fruitier, full of flavour…. Made from the finest and purest ingredients …. The best always.
MOIR’S JELLIES …. The Jelly with the PLUS flavour, delicious fruity flavours that are daintily different …. Characteristic of the fruit itself …. Refreshing, smooth and appetising …. They taste good and are good for you.
FREZOLL ICE CREAM POWDER …. Makes the home-made ice cream that created such enthusiasm …. The ice cream that people talk about …. It is delicious flavoured …. Has a fine, smooth, velvety texture …. Delightful to the palate …. Ask your grocer for the new BUTTERSCOTCH flavour …. You’ll like it!

CAPE ARGUS - 1939, February 17







Wednesday 18 March 2020

Frogs on Toast to Cure Cancer


CAPE ARGUS - 1939, January 14
In his talk this week Medicus deals with superstition in medicine and the healing power of faith.
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” is one of those gems of wisdom which Shakespeare puts into the mouth of his characters, this time Hamlet, and it is especially true in the world of medicine. Or put it thus: “Believe a thing is so, and it is apt to become so.”
But there are beliefs and beliefs. One is faith which is well-founded, whether in a supernatural force, a friend or a physician; the is not so well-founded, amounting simply to a belief that what we greatly desire must happen.
There are also not a few people who, as Burton says in his famous “Anatomy of Melancholy,” almost seem to believe more in a thing the more incredible it is, who like to think that the impossible may happen in their case.
Now all those beliefs, we, as doctors encourage up to the hilt. Someone has said that patients think much more of their doctor than they do of his prescriptions so that his mixtures, pills and powders derive most of their value, from the fact that it is he who prescribes them.
I am not so sure of that, and confess that I myself, when a doctor refused to order me a mixture because he thought all I needed was more exercise, begged him to give me a bottle. And, wise man, he finally yielded, saying with a smile: “All right, here you are if it will give you faith,” and wrote out a prescription.
THAT BOTTLE
I also know how much happier patients leave a surgery or a consulting room when they can hug to their bosoms a bottle, or a prescription with almost as many drugs in it as bullets in a shrapnel shell, one of which is sure to hit the mark.
And the prescription, too, is written in dog-Latin and its quantities set down in almost cabalistic signs which came down from the Middle Ages.
I often wonder why we adhere to this medieval custom. Is it that the mysterious looms large, and that men, women perhaps more so, have a greater faith in the things they cannot understand? At any rate it is the best, as an old writer said, that mystery leads millions by the nose, and that even today superstition lurks deep in the hearts of minds of many even intelligent folks.
SUPERSTITION RIFE
Certainly, in old-time medicine superstition ran rife, as the weird prescriptions unearthed on clay tablets from Babylon, Nineveh and Ancient Egypt show. But it does come with a surprise to learn that in the seventeenth century an ointment composed of the pulverized flesh of an Egyptian mummy, most scraped from the bones of executed criminals, bull’s blood and herbs collected in graveyards at a certain phase of the moon, was used by the great surgeons of Europe for 100 years. Lord Bacon, the man who not a few people think wrote the works of Shakespeare, believed in that ointment.
There was also the Sympathetic Powder, believed in by not only the Stuart kings and by distinguished learned men, such as Descartes, but also the foremost surgeons and doctors of that time. It did not cure by direct application to the wounded patient. All that was required was to get one of his blood-stained garments, soak them in a solution of the powder and, lo and behold, some mysterious emanations passed to the patient lying quite a distance off, and healed his wound. You may smile at this, but you cannot smile at the men who believed it. Here is another man whom you cannot ridicule, namely John Wesley, whose name men of all creeds and faiths united recently to commemorate.
Yet in a book entitled “Primitive Medicines or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Many Diseases,” we find the following passage:
“The fasting spittle outwardly applied every morning has sometimes relieved and sometimes cured blindness, corns, deafness, and warts.”
Here, too, was his cure for cancer, namely cold bath:
“This cured Mrs. B. of a cancer in her breast, of consumption, sciatica, and rheumatism which she had nearly 20 years. She bathed daily for a month and drank only water.”
CANCER CURES
That was 200 years ago, but when the American Society for the Control of Cancer offered £10 000 for a cure for that disease, 4 000 people of this twentieth century sent in co-called cures.
Not one of them came within an ace of securing the award; but I give a list of some of them in the hope that should any of my readers believe in any one of them they will not any longer waste valuable time on so-called cures, but go right off for early treatment by radium, X-rays, etc. – cures which have saved thousands and thousands of lives.
An outstanding suggestion was to catch a green-striped European frog, toast it in butter, rub it into a powder, and use the butter for a salve. Variants of this cure were to apply a live frog or crab or two to the growth till they died, or hold a live mole in the hand until it died, or to apply powdered centipede.
Others were to eat salt herrings, everything but the head, to drink water from a blacksmith’s cooling tub, never to eat anything grown by artificial manure, or with worms, to apply a hot torch, or lead with holes in it, petroleum, candle-grease or pig’s fat with sulphate of copper, onion-juice, turpentine, nicotine snails, spider-webs, horse-blood, goat’s milk, oil of cloves, blue clay, pepsin, pipe-amber, and carbonic snow.
Vegetable remedies used were acorn coffee, calendula flowers, cinnamon-tea, garlic, sorrel, cranberries, lobelia, red clover, hemlock, wild parsnip, willow-sap, sawdust and salt, chestnut powder, and saliva, phytolacca and pondlily roots.
Many of these are used to this day, despite their absolute uselessness. There were also cures alleged to have been made by chemicals, mechanical means, religion, spiritualism, and mystical rites.
RHEUMATISM
Rheumatism has afflicted man for thousands of years, and it is to be expected that it has given rise to a host of superstitious remedies, weird or gruesome, reinforced by charms, amulets and incantations, as I have described elsewhere.
But let us come down to the Christian era, say about 1 000 A.D. Then a pilgrim from the Holy Land brought back the anti-rheumatic finger-ring, belief in which was to survive to this very day, Indeed, in USA those rings of iron or polished steel are being worn by thousands of matter-of-fact business men who believe that the rust formed on them shows the rheumatic poison is being extracted.
Others pin their faith on a tight copper wire worn round the waist. The ring is worn, of course, on the fourth or wedding-ring finger. The ancients believed that this finger had a special nerve running straight to the heart, and Roman doctors used to stir their heart-medicines with it to make doubly sure.
WART TRICK
English country folk to this day believe that if you stroke a wart or stye with a wedding ring it will vanish immediately. That is better than the other ways of having the stye licked by a dog or struck nine times by a tom-cat’s tail.
And of course, we all know of folk who carry a potato or horse-chestnut in their trouser pocket for their rheumatism and swear by it.
Clearly, the, superstition still survives among us. True, sensible people no longer have a belief in charms and incantations, but it seems to me that what has taken their place is a pathetic and almost superstitious belief in the virtue of printed testimonials regarding, say, remedies from a sacred herb.
There is a curious instance of such an American preparation which attained a phenomenal sale purely through testimonials, no doubt genuine, from persons who believed it had cured them of almost every disease under the sun, from bow-legs and flat foot to diabetes, Bright’s disease and cancer. Yet, it was only sugar and water.
Another preparation, containing only olive oil, alcohol and water, brought glowing testimonials from blind folk saying that they actually seemed to be growing new eyes.
SACRED REMEDIES
No, do not mistake me. All secret remedies are not frauds and quite a number of them contain valuable drugs. All I can say is that testimonials are not proof. I can show you how that can be from my own experience in practice. I was once asked to prescribe for insomnia, and my dispenser by mistake sent a coloured mixture of Epsom salts. The patient wrote saying it was the most wonderful sleep-bringer she had ever had, and so glowing a testimonial did she give regarding it to her neighbours that my stock of Epsom salts ran out.
Here is another typical case: A patient’s hair was falling out to the extent of baldness. It was a case which would recover of itself, and I explained this, but the patient insisted on treatment. I gave it and the hair returned as luxuriant as ever, with the result that another glowing testimonial to the wonderful treatment arrived and as the news went around, a host of such cases turned up.
THE LESSON
I explained that no two cases were alike, and that where the hair papillae were dead, no treatment on earth would make the hair grow again. But it was no use. “Mrs…. had been cured by my treatment and would I give them the same?” So, I gave in, and the result was that out of well-nigh on 100 cases receiving the same treatment about six were cured and wrote me a letter of glowing thanks, while the other 94 I suppose must have been failures as I never heard from them.
This is the lesson – that, testimonials or not, what cures one person may not cure, or even may harm another. Yet another lesson is that Post hoc is not always Propter hoc – that is, that it may be Time and not our medicines which heals. This can be put in another way. One individual may have in his or her body a more potent Vis medicatrix naturae or inherent healing power than another.
To believe that the same drug can cure the same disease in every individual is nothing else than the grossest superstition, even though it is a common one in these enlightened days.

Sunday 15 March 2020

God Dwelling in Us


CAPE ARGUS - 1939, January 30
“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.” (Colossians 3:16 - N.I.V.)

God dwelling in the midst of His people, imparts a character of holiness to their assembly, and it is this holiness which alone can be the basis of every affection and activity, for assuredly the character of the dwelling place takes its stamp from the occupant. Paul requests ‘that Christ may dwell in the believer richly,’ and while it is gloriously true that God indwells the believer, it is equally true that He dwells in the assembly of His people. Nothing which is unholy in principle or practice can be tolerated by God in the assembly of the saints.” – The Rev. RW Wighton, Baptist Church, Observatory.

Friday 13 March 2020

Wash your Hands - with Lifebuoy Soap

CAPE TIMES - 1924, April 10
One hand after another …. 
Up and down the handrails of stairs in shops, factories, offices, railway stations, healthy hands, unhealthy hands, follow each other in continuous procession.
These hands need something more than cleanliness alone to protect them from the dust-laden germs of disease. They need the antiseptic protection which comes with the cleanliness of Lifebuoy Soap.
From the handrail to other parts of the body, the arms and face; from the handrail to the chubby cheek of an infant, to the curly head of a child; from the handrail to the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the articles we use –
There is no limit to the reasons for the use of Lifebuoy Soap, morning, noon and night.
It keeps the skin antiseptically clean and protected. It is an ideal Toilet Soap from the point of view of hygiene. Its lather is fresh, free, invigorating.
Lifebuoy Soap – The LEVER on Soap is a Guarantee of Purity and Excellence.


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Wednesday 11 March 2020

Menu for Thursday & Friday

CAPE TIMES - 1928, September 19

THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Breakfast
Breakfast
Fruit Salad
Paw-paw
Post Toasties
Oatmeal Porridge
Grilled Kidneys & Bacon
Savoury Omelet with Tomato
Scones – Honey – Tea
Toast – Marmalade – Tea
Lunch
Lunch
Curried Eggs & Rice
Cornflour & Cheese Savoury
Primrose Pudding & Sauce
Open Fruit Tart
Dinner
Dinner
Mutton Broth
Fish Custard
Boiled Corned Beef & Dumplings
Mutton Cutlets, Fried Onions, Fried Potatoes, Tomatoes
Carrots, Turnips, Onions
Pineapple Pudding & Sauce
Charlotte Russe
Cheese Biscuits

Tuesday 10 March 2020

Motor Cycle Club (M.C.C.) Trials 1918 - 1939

THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, March 14



RAND M.C.C. TRIALS
At the Rand MCC Trials held on Sunday, March 10, 1918, the following were the results:
* B.S.A.: First
* Triumph: Second
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Competitors at the start of the Cape Peninsula MCC Bartle Cup Competition on Easter Monday.
CAPE TIMES - 1924, April 24




















CAPE TIMES - 1924, May 13
Motor Cycle Race on the Sands at Milnerton
One of the competitors about to start.









CAPE TIMES - 1924, May 13 







Motor Cycle Race on the Sands at Milnerton
A general view of the crowd and three of the competitors.









CAPE ARGUS - 1927, August 5




Strand Motor Cycle Races
After a fortnight of really hard work, the officials of the C.P.M.C.C., who were responsible for the very successful races on the Strand Beach on August 1, are enjoying a short period of relaxation prior to renewed efforts in their progressive scheme of attractive entertainments. About five thousand people attended the races and thoroughly enjoyed the entire program, with the exception of the sidecar event, the last of the day. The course was one mile long, and the bottom corner was framed by many people.
Much credit is due to the officials of the C.P.M.C.C. for the excellent management of the meeting. At the start of the first even, every one of the programs was sold – double the quantity could easily have been disposed of.
THE ACCIDENT
It has been reported that one of the competitors was seriously injure during the race. This, however, is not the case, as the unfortunate incident occurred long before the course was declared open, and even before the distance was marked off by the official measures. The accident was due to the rider speeding along the beach by himself and suddenly striking a patch of loose sand. He lost control and was conveyed to the nursing home at Somerset West. There were no other accidents during the actual races. It is refreshing to learn from the controlling club that during the long term of its activities, extending from 1910, there has never been a single instance where a competitor has been injured.
FIRST RACE
The 600 c.c. scratch race started with a surprising burst of speed by RF Bacon on his little 2¾ h.p. A.J.S., followed by Backlin (Douglas) who also had his mount tuned to a nicety. These two, with Southall (A.J.S.), were so excited that they overrun the first corner, allowing one or two of the slower machines to get round first. The little A.J.S. and the Douglas were soon in the lead again. Bacon (A.J.S.) eventually won, and registered a fast lap of 62 m.p.h. during the course of his ride.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
The surprise of the day was seen in the novices’ race, when a little 2½ h.p. B.S.A in the hands of Bent lapped the course at 44 m.p.h. Such high speed from a miniature motor-cycle could not have been reasonably anticipated by the handicappers. This rider won the race with the two Dunelt men filling second and third positions. One of the latter did a lap at an average of 47 m.p.h., representing a really good performance for a two-strike of 2¼ h.p.
SIDE-VALVE MOUNTS
The third race was for five-valve machines, and brough out the big Harleys, it being evident at once that Short had the fastest engine on the field. His high-powered Harley simply ripped over the sand at a hair-raising speed and actually registered a lap at 72 m.p.h. This machine at one time or another must have touched nearer to 90 than 80, and when prepared and properly geared for a straight distance should attain the coveted 100 m.p.h. mark, which its rider anticipates reaching in the near future.
I do not know why it is that Short (Harley) does not figure in the awards for this race, and imagine that trouble of some kind must have prevented him from catching the speedy BSA (Symons) up which eventually won with not very much to spare from Bacon (A.J.S.) and Backlin (Douglas).
I believe that even with 72 m.p.h. being registered for his Harley, it is not the fastest speed at which the machine can lap the mile course, and think its intrepid little rider is still very wisely keeping something up his sleeve.
TEN-MILE RACE
There were one or two absentees from the ten mile s.v. race due to trouble overtaking riders in previous events. Nevertheless, the excitement was maintained when the back-markers got away. These comprised Short (Harley) and Du Toit (Harley), and although the limit man on a 2¼ B.S.A. rode well and took every advantage of his 400 seconds start, Short gained the lead near the end, only to lose it again through a slight engine seizure, which he considered could not be overlooked, and retired. This result was yet another proof of sound handicapping as the first three to finish were spread over the whole entry, the winner being GC Anderson (Dunelt) who received 320 secs. start, while HA Bent gained second place from the 400 secs. mark, and Du Toit (Harley), scratch man, coming into third position.
BACON’S TRIUMPH
What promised to be the tit-bit of the day was the scratch event for 350 c.c. o.h.v. machines, especially as rumours were freely circulated in town to the effect that the 350 c.c. experts had been tuning hard for some time past, and extremely high speeds with a hard battle for first place seemed assured. The race upheld its reputation for a few laps, when gradually yet surely riders fell out through some hidden fault. R Bacon (A.J.S.) took the lead from the start and maintained it throughout. He was never seriously challenged, and eventually won by about a quarter of a mile from HC Nolte, who was astride another A.J.S., D Van Reit (A.J.S.), a comparatively young rider, made no mistake about the third position, and deserves credit for his consistent riding. All three A.J.S.’s became monotonously consistent in the late stages of the race, and it was quite an education to watch them. It is difficult to single out any one who made more of an impression than the others, for once the three positions had been taken up, so they continued without varying the distance much until the finish. This might indicate that the leader, Bacon, had a good deal of speed to spare, but I do not think this was the case, and attribute his initial lead to quick gear changing and violent acceleration at the beginning. He certainly mad a splendid impression with his game little mount.
SIDECAR EVENT
The public were not so well impressed with the sidecar event, which was considered rather tame after the more dashing solo races. The speeds recorded were comparatively slow, and could be vastly improved upon. The most outstanding performers were Hemmens (Harley), MecFarlane (Harley), and Scott (Harley), who finished in that order. The little Morgan driven by M Longmore was among the fastest set and after completing two laps at an average of 51.5 m.p.h., was forced to retire with an oiled plug. The winner’s average for the six miles was 48.7, so that the Morgan, with its handicap of 40 secs., could have won easily if it had maintained its two-lap average for the whole race, a not impossible performance.
I am inclined to believe that the sidecar race should be made very much more spectacular if greater interest was evinced in it. If the committees desire to encourage the three-wheelers, they should enlarge the award a little, not forgetting to increase the fee accordingly.
 
CAPE ARGUS - 1927, August 5
Strand Motor Cycle Races
The big collection of cars at the Strand where motor-cycle races were held on Aug. 1, 1927.








CAPE TIMES - 1928, July 11


Metropolitan Motor Cycle Club’s Reliability Trial
A competitor in the Metropolitan Motor Cycle Club’s Reliability Trial to Sir Lowry’s Pass, starting from the Pier on Saturday.











CAPE ARGUS – 1939, January 26
Camps Bay Hill Climbing 
Thrills in plenty are promised at the Camps Bay Hill Climbing Contest to be staged by the Cape Peninsula Motor-Cycle and Car Club on the new Geneva Drive (off the Marine Drive) on Saturday. This picture was taken during a practice run today.

Saturday 7 March 2020

Best Bicycles: 1906 - 1939

CAPE ARGUS - 1906, July 27
CAPE ARGUS - 1906, July 27

Raleigh Cycles
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CAPE ARGUS - 1906, July 
Rudge-Whitworth Cycle
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CAPE ARGUS -1906, December 5
New Hudson Cycles
The Leading British Make fitted with every Up-To-Date Improvement for making cycling easy and pleasurable; and including a number of detail improvements especially valuable for South African use.


CAPE ARGUS - 1906, December 5

























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CAPE ARGUS - 1906, December 20
Rudge-Whitworth Cycle
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THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, January 29


Raleigh – Rigid, Rapid, Reliable
Rigidity by its extreme strength of design; Rapidity by its beautiful construction and Reliability by the excellence of material and labour employed. With Dunlop tyres and Sturmey-Archer 3-speed gear, perfect!

















THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, February 5
Raleigh – The All-Steel Bicycle
“There are no roads at all, only narrow paths through the forests, just wide enough for one man to walk, along,” writes Mr. Percy Last, a Uganda missionary, “but my Raleigh is perfectly right and as silent as the grave. I am more than ever convinced of the value of it.”
Guaranteed for Ever – the famous all-steel bicycle, with Dunlop tyres and Sturmey-Archer 3-speed gear, is as good in jungle as on track.













THE STAR Johannesburg - 1918, February 28
Ride a B.S.A. Cycle
There are numerous occasions in every home and business place when it would be a convenience and a saving of valuable time to have a bicycle handy. Shopping, delivering urgent messages, business calls, are a few of the things which can be easily and rapidly accomplished by cycling.
Ride a B.S.A. - Perfect in every part, and ensure years of reliable service. The few shillings difference between a genuine B.S.A. and a so-called cheap machine is more than counter-balanced by the freedom from trouble and expense which B.S.A. quality gives.
Every Part of a B.S.A. Bicycle is Guaranteed Interchangeable.



CAPE ARGUS - 1918, November 18
Have you tried a Cycling Holiday?
In congenial company you can take the most interesting and delightful routes – breaking your journey just when and where you desire. Cycling will double the enjoyment and benefit of your holiday besides being much more economical than the railway.
Ride a B.S.A. Bicycle – Perfect in Every Part – and ensure cycling under perfect conditions. B.S.A. quality material and workmanship is known the world over. Every genuine B.S.A. Bicycle bears the trade mark of the three piled rifles.


THE STAR Johannesburg - 1920, July 22











B.S.A. Cycle – “Perfect in every part.”
Why not cycle those unpleasant journeys and reach your destination quicker and in comfort on a B.S.A. Bicycle? The economy, pleasure and health derived from a B.S.A. Bicycle will soon repay the initial cost. All B.S.A. parts are guaranteed interchangeable.

















CAPE ARGUS - 1939, January 19
Raleigh – Easy Running
Raleigh cycling will be a new experience for the enthusiast – every part of this reliable cycle has been designed for easy-running and effortless riding. The Raleigh cycle has a fine quality steel frame, heavily enameled, ensuring a beautiful rust-proof finish. The saddle is super-strong. It pays to buy a Raleigh – the cycle with miles more wear.

Point 5 of Raleigh Perfection: HUBS
The Raleigh is Easy-riding. Ball bearings of specially hardened steel are fitted to Hubs, gear wheel and pedals. Automatic Free Wheel.






CAPE ARGUS - 1939, March 20
Strength and Endurance
Get the best out of cycling with a Raleigh – built by craftsmen for long life and dependability. All Raleigh cycles have chromium-plated spokes – the frame and mudguards are beautifully enameled with a special long wearing finish. These features keep your cycle smart. Get on to trouble-free cycling right away – get on to a Raleigh!

Point 2 of Raleigh Perfection: FORKS
Raleigh forks are tremendously strong and rigid. The crown is pressed from a single piece of steel – ensuring immense strength with exceptional lightness. Exclusive to Raleigh cycles.






CAPE ARGUS - 1939, March 20
Speed with Safety
Mile after mile of safe, effortless riding is yours when you buy a Raleigh. This famous cycle is fitted with extra dependable brakes, a super sprung saddle and many other refinements including chromium-plated steel spokes. Raleigh cycles incorporate the best design and the best workmanship – yet the cost is within reach of every cyclist’s pocket.

Point 1 of Raleigh Perfection: BRAKES
Every Raleigh cycle has rim-type action Brakes fitted with extra durable brake blocks, giving ease of control and long wear.


Cape Town’s new £22 000 Broadcasting Station at Milnerton

 CAPE TIMES - 1933, July 18 The Cape and Peninsula Broadcasting Association started Cape Town’s first Broadcasting Station on September 15, ...