History of the bicycle fashion of the day made the "ordinary" bicycle inaccessible. Queen Victoria owned Starley's "Royal Salvo" tricycle, though there is no evidence she actually rode it. Although French and English inventors modified the velocipede into the high-wheel bicycle, the French were still recovering from the Franco-Prussian war, so English entrepreneurs put the high-wheeler on the English market, and the machine became very popular there, Coventry, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester being the centers of the English bicycle industry (and of the arms or sewing machine industries, which had the necessary metalworking and engineering skills for bicycle manufacturing, as in Paris and St.
A-P-A Transport Corp. A-P-A Transport Corp. A-P-A Transport Corp. (also known as APA Transport) was a North Bergen, NJ based trucking and shipping company, at one point it was the nation's fourth largest interstate freight trucking company. Founded in 1947 by Arthur Edward Imperatore, Sr. and his brothers Eugene, Arnold, George and Harold in West New York, NJ. It started as a local trucking business with a single surplus US Army truck. Originally called "Imperatore Bros. Moving and Trucking." Later that same year they bought a second surplus truck, and then the name and two trucks of A&P Trucking Corp. for $800 from