THE DEVONPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL BICYCLE LICENSES 1937-1948
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The following list of some 1340 name and addresses has been extracted from
Volume 2 of the Devonport Borough Council's Bicycle Licensing book, by kind
permission of Mr John de Joux Oswald J.P.
Bicycle registration in Devonport started in 1936 and by June 23rd 1937 over
1,000 bicycles had been registered. Volume Two from which these names have
been extracted was started on 30th October 1937 with Registration number
1101. No trace can be found of Volume One which must be presumed lost.
The following information was recorded for each registration for the period
from 30th October 1937 to 6th January 1947:-
Date of Registration
Name of the owner
Address of the owner
Make of bicycle
Registration No.
Frame Number.
Starting on page 37, the date of registration was not recorded. Bicycles
that could not be identified as being of a specific make were described in
the register as being "Bitza's". Occasionally additional comments were also
included such as "2nd Hand Cycle", "Ladies Model", "Girls Half size" , "Two
Speed" etc.
The dates of registration have not been transcribed into this index. But to
give the reader an indication of the dates of registration, the dates were
as follows:-
Page 1. 30th Oct 1937 - 28th Dec 1937
Page 2. 29th Dec 1937 - 17th Mar 1938
Page 3. 21st Mar 1938 - 15th Aug 1938
Page 4. 15th Aug 1938 - 27th Oct 1938
Page 5. 26th Feb 1938 - 9 th Apr 1938
& 5th Nov 1938 - 25th Nov 1938
Page 6. 23rd Apr 1938 - 31st Aug 1938
Page 7. 6th Sep 1938 - 3rd Nov 1938
Page 8. 7th Nov 1938 - 14th Jan 1939
Page 9. 18th Jan 1939 - 29th Mar 1939
Page 10. 6th Apr 1939 - 10th May 1939
Page 11. 12th May 1939 - 1st Jun 1939
Page 12. 6th Jun 1939 - 14th Aug 1939
Page 13. 25th Aug 1939 - 8th Nov 1939
Page 14. 14th Nov 1939 - 23rd Jan 1940
Page 15. 25th Jan 1940 - 15th Apr 1940
Page 16. 15th Apr 1940 - 7th Aug 1940
Page 17. 27th Aug 1940 - 13th Dec 1940
Page 18. 19th Dec 1940 - 14th Jan 1941
Page 19. 14th Jan 1941 - 27th Jan 1941
Page 20. 29th Jan 1941 - 24th Feb 1941
Page 21. 24th Feb 1941 - 13th May 1941
Page 22. 13th May 1941 - 23rd Oct 1941
Page 23. 24th Oct 1941 - 19th Nov 1941
Page 24. 19th Nov 1941 - 23rd Dec 1941
Page 25. 29th Dec 1941 - 9th Feb 1942
Page 26. 11th Feb 1942 - 25th May 1942
Page 27. 8th Jun 1942 - 22nd Aug 1942
Page 28. 28th Aug 1942 - 10th Dec 1942
Page 29. 12th Dec 1942 - 20th Apr 1943
Page 30. 21st Apr 1943 - 6th Jan 1944
Page 31. 10th Jan 1944 - 29th Jul 1944
Page 32. 29th Jul 1944 - 16th Nov 1944
Page 33. 16th Nov 1944 - 20th Feb 1945
Page 34. 20th Feb 1945 - 7th Jul 1945
Page 35. 13th Jul 1945 - 10th Dec 1945
Page 36. 14th Dec 1945 - 6th Jan 1947
Pages 37 - 48. No dates of registration entered.
The registration entries have been transcribed by Ted WILDY and then checked
by Mrs Marianne PHILSON (nee DUDER) who lived at Devonport and whose
name appears in the book. It should be noted that whilst she is listed as Miss
Mollie DUDER she has never been known by that name.
Ted WILDY
Auckland
29th March 1991.
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