Ancillary Equipment, Tandem Cycle frame with generator/dynamo, German

yes German tandem cycle frame with an aluminium generator /dynamo.

This bicycle frame generated electricity by two- man pedal power. The dynamo generated electricity for trench wireless equipment and the lighting of dugouts during the First World War. See letter 6810 of 24 July 1918 in T/Trophies/G.H.Q. France "It is exactly like a tandem bicycle without its wheels. I am not sure if it ever was a bicycle. Anyhow two men sit on the ususal seats and work the machine just as if they were pedalling a bicycle and thus work a small aluminium dynamo fixed on behind. It is believed that the Germans employed defaulters in this way to make electric light for their dugout".

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