Penny-farthing the trend was short-lived, the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era. Its popularity also coincided with the birth of cycling as a sport. Eugène Meyer of Paris, France is now regarded as the father of the high bicycle by the International Cycling History Conference in place of James Starley. Meyer patented a wire-spoke tension wheel with individually adjustable spokes in 1869. They were called "spider" wheels in Britain when introduced there. Meyer produced a classic high bicycle design during the 1880s. James Starley in Coventry added the tangent spokes and the mounting step to his famous bicycle
A-P-A Transport Corp. in February 2010. 40th Anniversary Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year 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,