Magnus R points us at a lovely set of of cyclist denunciations from a long time ago, the time -1934- when the Daily Mail was busy supporting Mosely's Black Shirts, and everyone was scared of communists.
These government drawings don't come out and spell out the harsh truth: people on bicycles could be communists, and it was the duty of every driver who believed that a strong authority in government was the solution to our problems was to cut up the "traffic dodgers" and discourage them from even trying it again.
Lovely!
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Amazing, there are more cars pictured in these graphics from 1934 than you see in modern day advertisments from the motor industry.
1934... was just 11 years after a huge new road was proposed for Bristol. "The Portway". I have a 1923 map of the proposed road. I'll post something soon.
Nothing like a dual carriageway and a cyclist (sadly).
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