Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2023
Abstract
The first car on the roads of Malacca, a town in the British Straits Settlements colony on the Malay Peninsula, was reportedly nicknamed The Swallow. Images of the eponymous bird were painted onto the vehicle: an avian metaphor fitting for the new, emerging age of the automobile, with its associations with freedom, rapidity and the smoother flows of modern life (Hillier 1961: 99).1
Discipline
Asian History | Environmental Policy
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
Roadsides
Volume
008
First Page
51
Last Page
57
ISSN
2624-9081
Identifier
10.26034/roadsides-202200808
Publisher
University of Fribourg
Citation
GREATREX, Jack.
Swarming Infrastructures. (2023). Roadsides. 008, 51-57.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/423
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202200808