CTC Gazette, Vol 1899, No 11
Articles in this issue
- The Half-Yearly General Meeting at Birmingham (13 Oct) was declared informal because the October Gazette's meeting notices were not posted seven clear days ahead as required by the Articles of Association, so a Special General Meeting was fixed for Newcastle-on-Tyne, 17 November; also covers a complaint over the Blackpool hotel's misrepresented C.T.C. tariff and defends the Metropolitan police's fairness to cyclists, citing the Blackburn pavement-wheeling case and the Gateshead magistrates' ruling on footpath riding.
- Notice that the Annual Election of Officers takes place in December, with nominations for Representative Councillors due at headquarters by 14 November; a schedule sets out how many Councillors are required for each English county and for Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the grouped foreign countries.
- Agenda for the Special General Meeting at the Metropole Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne (17 Nov), with motions from E. Goold, Major C. H. L. Baskerville and R. C. Archer M. White; a Wiltshire Consular vacancy at Trowbridge; the Metropolitan District Association's 6 November meeting; and details of the Touring Bureau and Library, the Road Books, Companion, Handbooks, Continental editions, Customs arrangements and Thomas Cook & Son's discounted tours.
- Progress report on the fund marking Secretary E. R. Shipton's long service and the Club's majority year, with over 1,100 subscribers to date and the list kept open; a second list of 2s. 6d. subscribers names members including C. V. Boys, the Blathwayt family of Batheaston, and the Rt. Hon. A. Graham Murray, M.P.
- Minutes of the Special Council Meeting at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham (13 Oct 1899), chaired by W. Kendall Burnett, ruling the Half-Yearly Meeting informal, and the ordinary monthly Council meeting (14 Oct); resolutions on Danger and Caution boards, forming a new Cheshire District Association, and admitting automobilists to membership; includes the Interim Report of the Rights and Privileges Committee on cases including an assault on a Clapham member and a footpath-wheeling prosecution at Boston, Lincolnshire.
- Monthly reports from the Antrim and Down, Lancashire and Cheshire, Leicestershire, Londonderry and Donegal, Lothians, Notts, and West Riding District Associations, covering danger-board repainting, railway cycle-carriage negotiations with Irish and Scottish companies, and local committee elections.
- Specially reported account of the informal Birmingham meeting of 13 October, chaired by W. Kendall Burnett before about 120 members; debate on the Gazette's publication delays, the venue for the adjourned meeting (settled as London or Birmingham), and Danger/Caution board wording, with speeches from John Pennell, Sturmey, Archer White and Lieut.-Col. Wilson.
- Notice column inviting members to advertise for touring companions (one seeking a companion for Southern Europe, Algiers or America), with short items on the League of American Wheelmen's 51,756 membership and Rev. W. Cowan's offer to help revise C.T.C. maps around Banchory.
- The Editor's personal review of the season's machines: tyres (praising the Dunlop Road Racing tyre), wheel sizes, crank lengths, free wheels, rim brakes (the Willway & Son "Centric"), and his own mounts, a Centaur, a Rover and a Raleigh, plus tandems and tricycles.
- Constance Everett-Green on London's torn-up roads, a shortcut for cyclists through Horse Guards Parade to Whitehall, the British Museum's penny cycle-storage room, and a correction to earlier advice on washing white leather gloves; notes the Chester Public Library's C.T.C. Road Book set and errata to the "Blackwater District" article.
- Volume III instalment touring Cheshire's main routes: Congleton to Warrington via Brereton Hall, Knutsford and the Northwich salt mines, and Whaley Bridge to Manchester via Lyme Hall and Stockport.
- C. L. Freeston weighs free-wheel mounts against fixed gear, responding to the Bidlake/Brown debate, citing rim-brake control on the Stelvio Pass and the Hog's Back, and comparing roller and ratchet clutch types.
- F. T. Bidlake's column disputing T. Knowles's claims for his elbow-crank leverage in correspondence with R. L. Jefferson, and printing A. W. Rumney's account of a Collier two-speed gear fitted with an automatic free wheel.
- Third instalment of C. L. Freeston's Alpine Passes series ("Some Notes on the Chief Passes"), describing the Furka and Grimsel passes, the Rhone Glacier, the Grimsel Hospice's history including the 1799 Franco-Austrian skirmish, the Aareschlucht gorge, the Landwasser Road to Tiefenkasten, and the Engadine from Maloja to Martinsbruck.
- C. W. Brown reviews his first experiences of motor-tricycle riding and larger tyre sizes, and product notes on the "Echo" puncture-proof bands, the "Le Grip" cycle holder and the "P.M." chain lubricant; announces he has cancelled Cogswell & Harrison's licence for his "Armus" triangulated frame.
- Readers' letters on a Riviera touring route via the Alps to Nice, praise for A. W. Rumney's Lake District guide, errors in the Companion to the Road Book's Derbyshire routes, the "A.B." Cycle Co.'s misleading prize competitions, cycling spectacles, cycling in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad, and extended debate over free wheels, the Juhel gear, Bowden brakes and Trench tyres.
- Editor's replies to member queries on lamps, brakes, cyclometers and machine recommendations, followed by two County Court judgments against cycle firms for non-delivery, the Metropolitan Machinists Co. and the Cooper Cycle firm.
- Membership roll of new candidates listed by English county and by country, from Buckinghamshire and Cheshire through to France, Germany, Italy and the United States.
- Article 8 rules governing Life Membership composition (fixed at £5 5s.) and the November list of Life Membership candidates, naming the Misses E. D. and V. F. Salomons of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells.