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Player's kwam ook met een serie van vijftig plaatjes met fietsen en natuurlijk zat er een ligfiets bij, die toen in het Engels horizontal bicycle heette. Achterop stond het volgende verhaal:
"Introduced into this country from the Continent in 1933, the Velocar, or Horizontal Bicycle, did not attract very much attention, and British firms who experimented with them now build a few models to special orders only. The advantage of the recumbent position is that the back muscles aid the legs in propelling the machine. Greater speeds are, therefore, possible with the Velocar, but the rider tires more quickly. It is, therefore, not a suitable touring mount, especially as the rider, because of low position, gets more of the dust from the road. When the world's Velocar track records were first established in 1933 they were faster than the normal bicycle figures throughout almost the whole series."