During the 1890s bicycles had introduced the concept of easy personal mobility free from the expense and inconvenience of keeping a horse.
This entry was first published in The Wakefield companion to South Australian history edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001). Edited lightly. Uploaded 10 June 2015.
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Dieuwke Jessop, ‘Bicycles’, SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia, https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/milestone/bicycles/
Sources
Adelaide City Archives 1058, Item No.7: Agreements with Corporation Officers re: Bicycles 1900–1950s
Broomhill, Ray, Unemployed workers: a social history of the Great Depression in Adelaide (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1978)
Fitzpatrick, Jim, ‘Anzacs at War on Bicycles’, Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 54:3, 1983, pp31–38
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