The Classic MotorCycle

Pump it up

irst published in the January 12, 1904, edition of, this picture was captioned: “ A motor cyclist in Coventry who owns a Starley motor bicycle, having recently had his cellar flooded, made use of the machine to drive a pump, as shown in our illustration. The drive was taken by a long length of chain direct from the rim of the rear wheel to a pulley on the pump spindle.” That was all

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