IT WAS a brave person who ventured out when Cowley car workers were leaving the factory.
The roads would be a sea of bicycles as the men poured out of the factory gates and headed home.
There was no chance of keeping them to their side of the road – they filled it from one pavement to the other!
Other traffic was often brought to a standstill, with cycles filling almost every inch of space.
The picture on the right was taken in 1960 in what looks like Oxford Road, Cowley.
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