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Title: Phillip Huyssen poses with an Ingo-bike, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 14, 1936
1936-01-14
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Phillip Huyssen poses with an Ingo-bike, a type of eccentric-hub scooter he invented with his brother Prescott. Eccentric-hub scooters are powered by bouncing up and down on the platform to move the off-centered back wheel.
An ad for an Ingo-bike can be seen in the Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan 1936: A10.
Text from negative sleeve: 3222. Philip Huysson & new fangled Bike. 1-14-36. [stamped:] Jan 14 [year illegible]
Handwritten on negative: Philip Huyssen 1-14-36
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12112
ark:/21198/zz002h83mn
Subject: Inventors
Bicycles & tricycles
Inventions
Scooters
Huyssen, Phillip (Phillip Herman), 1902-1988
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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