Notes & References
…Reminiscences, S.E. Edge, Foulis & Co, London, 1934. ” … Hotel Cecil, London’s largest, swankiest hotel …”: The Hotel Cecil, built 1890–96, was one of London’s biggest and grandest hotels….
Continue Reading…Reminiscences, S.E. Edge, Foulis & Co, London, 1934. ” … Hotel Cecil, London’s largest, swankiest hotel …”: The Hotel Cecil, built 1890–96, was one of London’s biggest and grandest hotels….
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Continue Reading…met to discuss cycling matters in the Hut hotel, an alehouse overlooking Bolder Mere. One of these matters was no doubt the state of the roads, including the once well-surfaced…
Continue Reading…Club at the Annual Congress of the International League of Touring Associations. M. Charbonnier, Cantonal Engineers of Geneva, showed me an experiment he was making with hot tar on the…
Continue Reading…not built for sulkies, or steam engines, or any form of wheeled vehicle. Roads were not built for horses, either. Roads were built for pedestrians. H. G. Wells pointed this…
Continue Reading…£4000) I found out there was demand for the information. If you haven’t already signed up for the book notification email, please do so. Your details won’t be sold or…
Continue Reading…transportation dreamworld, a kind of magical Walt Disney fantasy in which everything flows with perfect smoothness and problems evaporate.” The 1992 edition of the book was still in awe: “you…
Continue Reading…to die in one,” said H. G. Wells in 1901.[1] When the use of stagecoaches tailed off thanks to competition from railways, Britain’s expensive turnpikes went through a period of…
Continue Reading…with their dung and their urine; these, as well as other filth, a absorbed by the wood, and ferment in its fibres. Under a hot sun, morbid germs are drawn…
Continue Reading…high-wheeler. The first Rover Safety – with a 36 inch front wheel and bridle rods not a raked front fork – was far from perfect and Starley, with the help…
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