Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Friday, 15 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Monday, 11 June 2012
A short history of the TRAG (TRansportation-AGriculture) Bike and Trike. Via: Old Minibikes
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Fiberglass bicycle manufactured by Elswick-Hopper Cycle & Motor Co Ltd, Barton-on-Humber, England. Via: Zaz Databaz
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Friday, 8 June 2012
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Sunday, 3 June 2012
"The Sedan, a glass-windowed, cloth-lined enclosed chair or litter was developed in London during the early 1630s. Its name, according to Henry Peacham (1576-1644, author of Coach & Sedan, 1636) derives from the Principality of Sedan on the Meuse, an important centre of cloth manufacture and a Protestant enclave on the North European mainland. The two names ‘sedan’ and ‘chair’ were commonly combined curing the first decade of the 18th century and by the late 19th century the combined term came to describe all hand-carried transport with a seated occupant. Many European countries extended the use of earlier terms to include this new glass-windowed carrying chair. So France used chaise a porteur(s) and Spain silla de manos. In Italy portantina replaced seggiola, whilst in Germany Sänfte described the new chair as well as the mule-litters already in use."
Via: A Brief history of the Sedan Chair
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Friday, 1 June 2012
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
"Designed by Fernand Fargeton with finances and experience of the rider Aimé Despland, the ACT 2 twin horizontal motor Ultima was with the Nougier 4, the big cylinder motorcycle of French post-war race. Conducted at the factory outside of working hours, conditions imposed by the direction of Ultima, she was born in 600 cm3."
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Thursday, 24 May 2012
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
“That same evening, all the participants got envelopes with a demarcated route, a detailed description of the dreams they were supposed to have at individual stages of the journey, and individual tasks. Immediately it became obvious that the warnings of the Grand Master’s emissary were not just empty phrases. Without those warnings, the tasks would have made everyone wonder. I will cite just a few: One Bicyclist, for example, was to buy ten grams of hashish in a certain street from a certain man in Istanbul, and then to smoke it during the month of September in room 213 of the ‘Paris Hotel’; another, on the other hand, was ordered to buy an old house in Smyrna, to renovate it, furnish it and then give it to a third Bicyclist who was to arrive in Smyrna on August 15 in order to set that same house on fire during the night of the 16th and 17th; one was actually supposed to open a fabric store in Athens, and another to become a chef at the residence of the British ambassador in Ankara.”
- Svetislav Basara, The Cyclist Conspiracy (Via: Invisible Stories)Read more...
Monday, 21 May 2012
Friday, 18 May 2012
Mrs Peel we're needed: The history of Racing Suits, Boiler Suits, and Catsuits. Via: The VintagentRead more...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
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