These are the notes and references to accompany the print, iPad, ePub and Kindle versions of the book. With so many references to cite there would have been way too many fugly, fiddly superscript numbers on the pages. The text in quotes and bold is the text with the note attached to it.
Click on the large green text to navigate the notes in those chapters. 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. A advert for Mitsubishi UK shows the evolution of wheels as going from stone! Social historian H. Beales, The Times, Dec 10th 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.
Batchelder was described so by the Automobile Club of Oregon, The Cycling World Illustrated , March 25th, The early motorists and many still today very much despised public transport. 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.
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 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.
Still, the charm of freedom he stops when he likes, and he can be independent of his fellows. Coventry was a city with many machine-shop businesses and operators, thanks to the cycle industry.
