THE DEVONPORT BOROUGH COUNCIL BICYCLE LICENSES 1937-1948 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------ Auckland, New ZealandGenWeb ----------- http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlauckl/ -----------