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.
Road and Transport Mission Mode Project Road and Transport Mission Mode Project The Road and Transport Mission Mode Project (MMP) is one of the 27 Mission Mode Projects of the National e-Governance Plan in India, a program to centralize governance operations online. Under this project, Road Transport Offices (RTOs) are being computerized throughout India. Data is collected at State Registers, National Registers, and RTOs which are connected to one another and share comprehensive data. Driving license (DL) services online can process applications for new licenses, select dates for driving skills test, and accept online payments for license-related fees. Vehicle registration (VR) services include payment of registration