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ROADS WERE NOT BUILT FOR CARS
HOW CYCLISTS WERE THE FIRST TO PUSH FOR GOOD ROADS & BECAME THE PIONEERS OF MOTORING |
By: |
Carlton Reid |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£32.00 |
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£27.20 |
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ISBN 10: |
1610916891 |
ISBN 13: |
9781610916899 |
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Publisher: |
ISLAND PRESS |
Pub. date: |
9 April, 2015 |
Pages: |
360 |
Description: |
Roads Were Not Built for Cars is a history book, focussing on a time when cyclists had political clout, in Britain and especially in America. The book researches the Roads Improvement Association - a lobbying group created by the Cyclists' Touring Club in 1886 - and the Good Roads movement organised by the League of American Wheelmen. |
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The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use. Cyclists were the first group in a generation to use roads and were the first to push for high-quality leadership for roads. They were also the first promoters of motoring; the first motoring journalists had first been cycling journalists; and there was a transfer of technology from cycling to motoring without which cars as we know them wouldn't exist! 64 car marques, including Rolls-Royce, Aston Martin, Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC, had bicycling beginnings. Roads Were Not Built for Cars is a history book, focussing on a time when cyclists had political clout, in Britain and especially in America. The book researches the Roads Improvement Association - a lobbying group created by the Cyclists' Touring Club in 1886 - and the Good Roads movement organised by the League of American Wheelmen in the same period. |
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US |
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Island Press |
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