Sheldon Brown schrieb:
> Michael Schmid schreib:
>
>> My two cents here:
>> I think the german bicycle industry was at least as big as the english
>
> Not so sure about that, because the English bicycle industry had a very
> large export market, while the German industry was mainly geared to the
> domestic market.
>
>> and probably bigger than the american inudstry
>
> Quite possibly. It's interesting to note that the early U.S. industry
> was VERY heavily influenced by German immigrants. I'll just mention the
> names "Schwinn" and "Wald" but there are others that I can't recall from
> the early part of the 20th century.
A maybe interesting sidenote; i own a book written by young german Heinrich Horstmann who rode around the world on a bicycle in 1895. When he returned from that juorney he started importing US made "Crescent" bicycles to germany...
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