CTC Gazette, Vol 1899, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Covers the Regina v. Sprague ("Hautboy" Hotel, Ockham) and Regina v. Broady ("Walton Arms", Warrington) innkeeper prosecutions, the C.T.C.'s petition against the South Eastern/London, Chatham & Dover Railways amalgamation Bill, opposition to the Denbighshire lights bye-law exemption for agricultural vehicles, and notes on the new Touring Bureau and Library and the forthcoming International Touring Congress.
- Programme for the International League of Touring Associations' First Annual Congress (6-10 June, Hotel Cecil, with visits to the Rover and Swift Cycle works), notices of new district associations for Warwickshire and Greater Birmingham and for Londonderry and Donegal, the Glasgow meet, the Wilts Spring Consuls' Meet, a Chief Consular vacancy for King's County, and Road Book/Handbook prices and touring arrangements.
- Reports from the Antrim and Down, Dublin, Lancashire and Cheshire (Manchester section), Leicestershire, Lothians, Notts, and West Riding District Associations, listing spring runs and committee business including the Devlin v. Clare case and representations on lighting bye-laws.
- Lord Advocate A. Graham Murray announces a subscription committee, subscriptions limited to 2s. 6d. per member, to mark Secretary E. R. Shipton's service in the Club's 21st anniversary year.
- Minutes of the Council meeting at the "Blossoms" Hotel, Chester, on 8 April 1899, with resolutions on Chief Consul vacancies and the Harrogate August meeting, plus interim reports of the Rights and Privileges Committee (Metropolitan Streets Act Bill, Falmouth Harbour tolls, the Ockham and Walton indictments), the Map and Road Book (Joint) Committee (the new Touring Bureau under Mr O'Meara), and the Finance Committee.
- Part I, "Dublin to Cork", written and illustrated by A. R. Quinton: an account of touring through County Wicklow, Glendalough, the Vale of Ovoca, Mount Melleray Monastery, the Blackwater valley and the Groves of Blarney.
- F. T. Bidlake's column on the Sprague verdict and rational dress for lady cyclists, the "just as good" fallacy in buying a cheap bicycle, Turner-type luggage carriers, and the Daily News's muddle over Greenwich versus local sunset time.
- Notices of Dr C. Bourlet's "La Bicyclette: Sa Construction et Sa Forme" (disputing French claims for Michaux over Kirkpatrick Macmillan, and comparing gear-cases and tyre types), plus shorter notices of an English-Spanish dictionary, the Pocket Guide to Paris, Kent's Capital and Dartmoor and its Surroundings.
- Archibald Sharp, B.Sc., rebuts critics including Bidlake, Mecredy and Swindley after his Cantor Lectures, arguing that back-pedalling downhill is refreshing rather than tiring, citing his own stair-descent experiment at 47 Victoria Street and discussing free wheels and brakes.
- Full trial reports of Regina v. Sprague (Lady Harberton refused the coffee-room at the Hautboy Hotel, Ockham, for wearing "rational" costume; the jury acquitted the landlady at Kingston) and Regina v. Broady (the Walton Arms, Warrington, refusing Sunday refreshment to cyclists Hartwig and Stubbs; also acquitted).
- Report of the Select Committee hearing on the South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railways amalgamation Bill, with Mr Lloyd's evidence for the C.T.C. on cycle carriage rates and cloak-room accommodation, and Secretary Shipton's comparative figures for continental lines.
- Members' small advertisements seeking touring companions for Wales, Devonshire, Cornwall, Brittany, Normandy, the Black Forest, Holland, the Rhine and the Italian Lakes.
- Members' letters on Black Forest and Norfolk Broads touring routes, cycling map scales and colour-blindness, the Gazette's advertisement finances (C. Fredk. Lowe on the £7,000 surplus), trip cyclometers, lamp wicks, two-speed gears, "Silico" enamel, the Bowden brake, the Badminton Skirt, and extensive debate on the rights of "rationalists" following the Harberton verdict.
- The editor's brief replies to numbered members on machine recommendations, tyres, brakes, gears, saddles, punctures and continental touring routes.
- The monthly roll of candidates for C.T.C. membership, arranged by English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish counties.