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‘Resistance was futile!’ Cycling’s discourses of resistance to UK automobile modernism 1950–1970

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Figure 1. Road traffic by vehicle type (excl. cars) Great Britain 1949–2009. Source: Department for Transport, Transport Statistics.

Figure 1. Road traffic by vehicle type (excl. cars) Great Britain 1949–2009. Source: Department for Transport, Transport Statistics.

Figure 2. ‘Getting around’, the benefits of the bicycle. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club (1957: 91).

Figure 2. ‘Getting around’, the benefits of the bicycle. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club (1957: 91).

Figure 3. Stevenage cycleway underpass at road junction. Source: http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/stevenage/, last accessed 4 April 2017.

Figure 3. Stevenage cycleway underpass at road junction. Source: http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/stevenage/, last accessed 4 April 2017.

Figure 4. The Buchanan Report’s much reproduced ‘vision of the future’. Source: Colin Buchanan, Traffic in Towns, 143.

Figure 4. The Buchanan Report’s much reproduced ‘vision of the future’. Source: Colin Buchanan, Traffic in Towns, 143.

Figure 5. ‘Trail of the modern improvement devil’. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1961, 23.

Figure 5. ‘Trail of the modern improvement devil’. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1961, 23.

Figure 6. Perceived future of the automobile-age. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1963, 81.

Figure 6. Perceived future of the automobile-age. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1963, 81.

Figure 7. Automobile Association’s Safety Through Courtesy booklet. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1952, 645.

Figure 7. Automobile Association’s Safety Through Courtesy booklet. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1952, 645.

Figure 8. RoSPA poster. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1959, 207.

Figure 8. RoSPA poster. Source: Cyclists’ Touring Club, The CTC Gazette, 1959, 207.