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    Thomas Suter and family in Bruce Grove, in the 1911

                                                             census

                                  It  seems  business  as  an  electrician  was  unkind  to
                                  Thomas for a time (one recalls the parallel case of John
                                  Thomas  Norman  junior  a  couple  of  decades  earlier).
                                  But after an initial setback, apparently he returned to it,
                                  since  his  shop  featured  “electrical  and  mechanical
                                  equipment”.    Whether  or  not  the  shop  sold  Richard
                                  Suter’s  mounts  is  unknown.  Thomas’  entrepreneurial
                                  instinct was strong: by 1911 he had moved three doors
                                  away,  to  a  shop  now  specialising  in  bicycles  –  then
                                  very  much  an  up  and  coming  commodity.    That
                                  business  must have  prospered  –  in  1926  the  electoral
                                  records  show  Thomas  continuing  business  at  Bruce
                                  Grove  but  living  at  686  High  Road,  so  he  probably
                                  owned  one  or  both  of  those  premises.    (His  son
                                  continued  the  business,  and  the  bicycle  shop  still
                                  existed  in  1986,  now  moved  to  686  High  Road  and
                                  offering mopeds as well as bicycles.)

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