![]() Coventry’s established cycle businesses could amortise the costs of experiments and production of the first models before returns began to flow in. ![]() Coventry was a city with many machine-shop businesses and operators, thanks to the cycle industry. “Before Coventry and Detroit became known as motor towns, they were cycling cities”: Another reason for Detroit becoming Motortown was because it was an important producer of engineers for motor launches and other small boats. Still, the charm of freedom he stops when he likes, and he can be independent of his fellows.” “The man who takes an automobile and drives it along the open road, is, as it were, a freeholder, also with some of the freeholder’s freedom - though, doubtless, also with some of the freeholder’s limitations and weakness and isolation. A railroad train, with its engineer, brakeman and conductor and fixed places of stoppage, is a creature of strict rules, and those who travel on it must temporarily surrender their private wishes, or, a portion of them, in order to co-operate with others. But in order to satisfy these volitions and make them executive they have to be marshaled and organized, and so, in a sense, shackled. A passenger train starts and reaches its destination owing to the combined volition of a large number of persons who want to travel, let us say, from New York to Boston. “The railway train is necessarily collectivism. Here’s an example from The Automobile Magazine, September 1902: The early motorists (and many still today) very much despised public transport. ” … free from fodder, free from timetables, free from rails … “: Cyclists might have been the first to awaken people to transport independent of oats and timetables, but motoring extended the concept. The Cycling World Illustrated, March 25th, 1896. In 1896 he was lobbying MPs not to introduce a “cycle Tax” at the same time as lobbying MPs over the so-called Emancipation Act that in November of that year would allow motor cars to drive, legally, on British roads. “Sturmey was editor, at the same time, of both The Cyclist and The Autocar”: According to The Cycling World Illustrated, Sturmey was very active at promoting cycling even while he was also promoting motoring. Batchelder was described so by the Automobile Club of Oregon, 1921. “America’s foremost highway enthusiast … “: Amos G. The symbiotic relationship between cycling and motoring continues today with the likes of bicycle-maker Specialized and F1 motorsport manufacturer McClaren working together on making bicycles more aerodynamic. ” … automobile’s family tree … “: And tricycle, of course. Beales said, in 1935, “Bicycles and motor-cars have an ancient lineage.” The King’s Highway Pioneers of Road Improvement, H. ” … carriage DNA … “: Later motor cars, with more powerful engines, were sturdier and able to accommodate heavier carriage body-work. A 2014 advert for Mitsubishi UK shows the evolution of wheels as going from stone (!), to solid cart wheels, to spoked carriage wheels to motor car wheels, missing out the contribution of spoked bicycle wheels (which were used on the first motor cars). ” … horse-drawn carriages … “: And not just historians. ![]() Top quote: “Time to curb pedal power,” Daniel Meers, Gold Coast Bulletin, Australia, December 11th, 2012. From King of the Road to Cycle Chic Epilogue History of roads timeline Appendix – Motor marques with bicycling beginnings Without Bicycles Motoring Might Not Exist 15. America’s Forgotten Transport Network 12. Ripley: “the Mecca of all Good Cyclists” 10. Click on the arrow in the grey box, at the base of the page on the right, to skim back to the top of the page. Click on the large green text to navigate the notes in those chapters. The text in quotes and bold is the text with the note attached to it. With so many references to cite there would have been way too many fugly, fiddly superscript numbers on the pages. ![]() That’s far too much detail for placing in the print – or even digital – editions of the book. There are 1600+ entries, some of them extended, making for a whopping 108,916 words. These are the notes and references to accompany the print, iPad, ePub and Kindle versions of the book.
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