CTC Gazette, Vol 1899, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Previews the 13 October Half-Yearly General Meeting at Birmingham's Grand Hotel; makes a personal appeal for members to help revise the Club's official maps district by district; needles Gainsborough magistrate W. Embleton Fox for confessing to footpath riding while fining a lady cyclist for the same; thanks the press for its warm reception of last month's 'Majority' commemorative issue.
- Half-Yearly General Meeting agenda (Council representation scale, danger-board wording, Article 22 changes); Tyrone Chief Consular vacancy nomination for Rev. S. Lindsay; notices on the British Handbook's 60,000-copy shortfall, the Touring Bureau and Library, the Club Road Books, Companion, Continental Road Book, Foreign Handbook, Customs arrangements for nine countries, Thomas Cook & Son tour discounts and Club Costumes.
- Minutes of the Council's monthly meeting at Edinburgh's Imperial Hotel, 9 September 1899, chaired by W. Kendall Burnett, covering Danger and Caution Board wording, a new Metropolitan District Association, and Stanley J. A. Cotterell's election to Life Membership; appends interim reports of the Rights and Privileges Committee (the Walton Arms case, the Wallasey wheeling bye-law), the General Purposes Committee and the Re-organisation of the Council Committee.
- Reports and forthcoming runs from the Lancashire and Cheshire (Manchester and Liverpool sections voting to split), Leicestershire, Lothians, Notts, Warwickshire and Birmingham, and West Riding District Associations, plus a Croydon assault prosecution and complaints of Birmingham's flint-chipped wood pavements.
- Lord Advocate A. Graham Murray's appeal for a testimonial marking Secretary E. R. Shipton's 21 years of service to the Club, subscriptions capped at 2s. 6d. each; prints the first list of subscribers to 15 September, arranged alphabetically from A to Y.
- Notices W. F. Ball's 'The Cyclists' Finger-Post' road book for Birmingham cyclists, A. W. Rumney's 'Sprogues on the Fells', a 'Viatores' pocket Continental road book judged a failure, and 'Mr. Pickwick's Kent', a photographic record of the Pickwick Club's tour through Rochester and Chatham.
- F. T. Bidlake argues for a weekly rather than monthly Gazette to relieve editorial crowding, defends the free wheel's automatic action against critics of manual clutch devices, and explains from a Cumberland cycling mishap why a low gear suits the everyday tourist better than a high one.
- 'One of the Fair Sex' tours Ireland's Blackwater district from Cork via Blarney and Mallow to Fermoy, Lismore, Cappoquin and Youghal, describing Blarney Castle, the history of Lismore Castle under the Earls of Cork, and the Knights Templars' preceptory at Rhincrew.
- C. Edwardes recounts a Corsican cycling tour beginning at Calvi, a damaged gear-case mended by a village blacksmith, the island's mountain roads and zigzag descents, and repeated passport scrutiny by French and Italian officials at Livorno and Modane.
- Constance Everett-Green discusses the drought-hit, dusty touring season and the dangers of riding in excessive summer heat, then joins the free-wheel debate, likening back-pedalling to a coachman's rein control rather than to applying a brake.
- C. W. Brown rebuts 'Tom Bowling' on free-wheel clutch locking, reviews the Yorkshire County Cycle Co.'s 'Hepworth' Light Roadster and the new left-hand-thread Lucas tyre valve, comments on Turnbull's Hollow Cranks and a home-made acetylene lamp generator, and protests against further price-cutting on cycles.
- C. L. Freeston's second instalment on the chief Swiss passes describes the Fluela, Albula, Julier, Maloja, Schyn and Oberalp routes between Davos, the Upper Engadine and Andermatt, comparing gradients, hospices and scenery pass by pass.
- Frank H. Leeds, F.I.C., explains the theory of friction and viscosity, compares fatty and mineral lubricating oils, warns against combined lubricating-and-illuminating oils and against running a dirty chain, and gives home tests for detecting an inferior cycle oil.
- Members' notices seeking touring companions for Southern Europe, Algiers or America over two or three months, a fortnight's tour of south-west France from 14 October, and Saturday afternoon runs in north London.
- Member letters on German and Belgian touring through the Rhine, Mosel, Eifel and Black Forest, the Southampton-Havre steamer service, Normandy routes, Alpine pass heights compared with the Himalayas, a Somerset geological tour, New Forest roads, free wheels, cyclometers, the Trench and Dunlop tyres, the Juhel gear, lamp brackets, and long cranks versus high gears.
- The editor answers members on lamp recommendations (Lucas's Holophote, the Asp candle lamp, Salisbury's Acetylette), the Rowley Puncture Locater's address, reliable cyclometer makes, machine weight for a lady rider, and railway carriage rates for cycles.
- The October 1899 roll of new membership candidates arranged by English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and foreign counties and countries, from Berkshire through to the United States of America.
- Rules governing Life Membership under Article 8 and the February 1888 General Meeting resolutions, followed by the October 1899 roll naming the Misses M. J. and S. C. Salomons of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells.