By Carlton Reid
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Extra resources for Roads Were Not Built for Cars: How Cyclists were the First to Push for Good Roads & Became the Pioneers of Motoring
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The exception is Carl Benz – he was an enthusiastic cyclist for a time but he made no contribution to cycling. The others were inventors, entrepreneurs, officials and promoters who honed their skills in the world of cycling before transferring to motoring. CARL BENZ On Easter Sunday 1933, in front of a huge crowd and beneath fluttering red flags emblazoned with swastikas, a stone monument was unveiled in Mannheim, Germany. The monument was to Carl Benz. ” As a piece of art it’s unremarkable; as a piece of history it stinks.
In the show’s promotional literature, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was described as having been a complete novelty in 1886 – an innovation that had been influenced by no other vehicle. Pointedly, there was no mention of its cyclebased beginnings. Cycling had lost all of its Belle Époque cachet by the 1930s. Bicycles were deemed a relic of the past – the future was motoring and bicycles could no longer have any place in motoring’s nativity story. There was a very personal reason for the vilification of cycling in 1930s Germany: Hitler hated bicycles.
S Good Roads campaign. He paid for the printing and distribution of pamphlets, seed-funded road engineering departments in American universities, and masterminded an oversize petition, which was delivered to the US Senate. It called for the creation of a government roads department. In 1892, Pope wrote a five-page article in the influential magazine The Forum. “I have for years 16 pioneers urged improvement in the building and maintenance of public roads for practical business reasons,” he asserted, adding: So far as I could use and extend my influence and the influences that I could quicken, I have sought to kindle and to fan a flame of enthusiasm for improved carriage roads, on the grounds of prudence in the expenditure of money, of foresight in the development of plans, and of practical results – that is to say, of profits measurable as money-returns on investment.