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Kōrero: Bicycles

Speedy Cycles shop

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Speedy Cycles shop

Cyclists line up in front of Jack Suckling’s shop in Manchester Street, Christchurch, around 1913. Jack Suckling (ninth from the right) stands on the pavement near the front door wearing a cap. The man third from the right is champion cyclist Phil O’Shea. Bicycle factories and shops proliferated in New Zealand in the early 20th century.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Adam MacLay Collection

Reference: 1/1-024016; G

by Adam McLay

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jamie Mackay, Bicycles – Bicycle manufacturing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23425/speedy-cycles-shop (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jamie Mackay, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010.