The Cyclist and Wheel World Annual (1884)
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C. W. Nairn and Henry Sturmey, ed. The Cyclist and Wheel World Annual (1884). 1884. cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/books/the-cyclist-and-wheel-world-annual-1884/
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Contents
- The editors say the enlarged Diary, which gives four times last year's space, answers readers' wishes, and that the book aims at accuracy and utility for riders and advertisers.
- A month-by-month diary for 1884, one page to a set of days: each date with its weekday, sunrise and sunset, a lamp-lighting note, moon phases, and a mileage column for each day's run.
- Introduces the set of tables of places off the high roads, which complete last year's tables; the example of Frampton, Dorset, shows how to find a place's distance and direction from the nearest high-road town through the earlier Annual's road tables.
- Results of the 1883 races arranged alphabetically by place, from Accrington through Alexandra Palace, Bath, Coventry and Woodbridge to Yarmouth and York, with handicap winners, times and the Adams record ride of 242 miles in 24 hours on a Facile.
- Late 1883 race results from Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hawick and Kilmarnock, with the handicap winners, D. W. Laing, H. Pechell, T. Haddow and D. H. Huie among them.
- Results of the 1883 Irish meetings arranged alphabetically by place, from Naas, Portarlington and Tralee to Tullamore, Warrenpoint, Waterford and Belfast, with the winners and times of the club and open races.
- Table of the fastest Irish amateur times from one mile to fifty miles, each with the club and date (Dublin University B.C., Dublin Athletic Club, Waterford B.C., Dublin I.B.A.).
- Review of the southern path racing of 1883 by the season's form: the victories of Liles over Gaskell and Sutton, W. Brown's win over Gaskell, F. E. S. Perry's riding, the disappointments Whatton, Adam, Keith-Falconer, Buckley and Thompson, and the Crystal Palace track.
- Review of Midland racing in 1883: the Clifton rider's season, the Speedwell Charity meeting, the rise of Nicholas and Kemmis-Betty, the new men Sutherland, Cassel and Collier, and the retirement of J. F. Griffith.
- Review of western and south-western racing by 'West Countryman': H. West's four firsts in a day at Plymouth on Whit-Monday, beating Gaskell, J. J. Neale's successes at Bristol, and the riders of the West Country and South Wales.
- Review of Scottish racing: the new cinder tracks at Gilmorehill and Anniesland, Mr Lapsley's improvements at Powderhall, the times of D. W. Laing, D. H. Huie and G. B. Batten, the riders T. Haddow, Bow and McQuater, tricycle racing, and M. Sinclair's 50 miles championship.
- A German correspondent's report: club numbers rising to 105 in 1883 with 65 in the two unions, the Berlin fight over police and riding, the Prussian court ruling that a velocipede is a carriage, new tracks at Ingolstadt, Magdeburg and Munich, and the Beissbarth 24-hour road record of 266 km.
- Describes the N.C.U., incorporated in 1878 as the legislative body of cycling, with its clubs and individual members, delegates, Council and Executive, its offices at Ironmonger Lane and its hon. sec., R. Todd; closes with a note on the union's prospects.
- Practical advice for touring: choosing a sound machine with a good brake and rake, carrying spare nuts and repair parts, riding gently at the start of a tour, the use of a knapsack, diet, dress, and mending a loose tyre with string, with membership of the C.T.C. recommended; signed F. Freeman.
- The club directory's introduction and the London clubs by district, each entry giving headquarters, hon. sec., captain, entrance fee, subscription, uniform, headgear, membership and year formed, for clubs such as the Alert at Clapton, Paternoster, Rovers, Lewisham, Mid-Surrey and Westbourne Park.
- English provincial club entries, town by town, each with headquarters, hon. sec., captain, fees, uniform, headgear, membership and year formed, from Westbourne Park and West Kent through Leighton Buzzard, Newcastle, Rusholme and Weybridge to Winchester and Woodville.
- Scottish club entries by town, with the same details of headquarters, officers, fees, uniform and membership, including Dunfermline, Forfarshire, Wick and Lockerbie, and the Yeovil and Great Yarmouth clubs printed in the same run.
- Irish club entries by town, each with headquarters, hon. sec., captain, fees, uniform, headgear and membership, such as the 'Ohne Hast' C.T.C. of Dublin with its hon. sec., R. Bindon Stoney.
- Welsh club entries by county and town, each with headquarters, officers, fees, uniform, headgear and membership, from Carnarvonshire onward.
- Club entries in the colonies, among them the Pioneer club at Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Port Elizabeth A.B.C., each with secretary, captain, uniform and membership.
- American club entries by town, including the Boston Bicycle club, the Haverhill club and the Scranton Bicycle club, with secretaries, captains, fees, uniform and membership.
- Continental club entries by town in Germany, Belgium, France and elsewhere, each with headquarters, secretary, captain, entrance fee, subscription, uniform, membership and year formed, such as the Bernburg Velocipeden Club and the Nurnberger club.
- Tricycle club entries by town in England, Scotland and abroad, each with headquarters, hon. secretary, captain, fees, uniform and membership, from the Eastbourne T.C. and Forest Hill club to the Vienna clubs and the Troyes Temple club.
- Describes the C.T.C., founded 5 August 1878: its 11,000 members, its 800 consuls and 1,200 hotels on its tariff, its protection of members on the road and against railway charges, its subscription of 2s 6d and entrance fee of 1s, its monthly Gazette and its secretary, E. R. Shipton, in Fleet Street.
- A dated record of 1883 events in the tricycle world, from the first ascent of Muswell Hill and the North London T.C.'s annual meeting with John Holms M.P. as president, through the summer's rides and accidents, and the tricycle club news of each month.
- A month-by-month review of 1883 cycling: the B.T.C.'s change of name to the C.T.C., the Ineson defalcation in Bradford, the London Tricycle Club's move to the Tricycle Union, the Stanley Show from 29 January, Lord Granville's tricycle gig, the 24-hour road rides of Brown and Sutton, and the professional path records of Lees and Wood.
- The North-Eastern district's racing by 'Northumbrian': the Tyneside and Teesside riders Oliver, W. B. Kirsop, Young and T. M. Dawson, the One Mile Championship at the Crystal Palace on 14 July, and the handicap prospects on three-wheelers.
- Table of the charges for carrying bicycles and tricycles on the London and North-Western, Great Western, Midland, London and South-Western, Great Eastern, North Eastern, Caledonian, North British and Glasgow and South-Western railways.
- The Norddeutscher Velocipedisten-Bund, or North German Cyclists' Union, founded 22 October 1882 with the objects of the N.C.U. and C.T.C. combined, and its officers, including President Heinrich Stamer of Hamburg.
- Table, compiled by G. P. Coleman as official handicapper and timekeeper of the N.C.U., of amateur record times from a quarter mile to 24 miles, with the rider, club, place and date, the holders including H. L. Cortis, A. Thompson, the Hon. Keith-Falconer, W. K. Adam and H. W. Gaskell.
- Table of professional bicycle records from a quarter mile to 23 miles, with rider, place, date and year, the holders including W. Phillips, R. Howell, F. Wood, F. Cooper, J. Keen and F. Lees, with a note on Lees's 20 miles 905 yards in the hour at Leicester on 18 August 1883.
- Index of the 1883 prize winners and placed men, arranged alphabetically by name, with the pages on which each appears.