May 1900

Articles in this issue

• Editorial (opens in a new tab)

  Renewals are at a record, up 2,400 on any previous year, but candidates for 1900 are 3,300 fewer than in 1899, and a form of application is enclosed; the Council has remitted the Annual General Meeting's recommendations (restoring the old ticket, a more frequent Gazette, larger grants to District Associations) to the Finance and General Purposes Committees. Side-heads also cover Chief Consuls' help in locating finger-posts, the new two-mile C.T.C. map to be revised with Messrs. Bartholomew of Edinburgh, and the Swinford Bridge toll case, with the Williams v. Ellis precedent that a bicycle is not a carriage under a toll Act.
• Official Notices (opens in a new tab)

  The Paris Exhibition: eight Paris hotels' terms and thirteen Itineraries (Boulogne, Dieppe, Havre, Caen, Cherbourg, St.-Malo and Calais to Paris) at 3d. each, plus Consular vacancies in Durham, Montgomery and Notts, the proposed Dublin and Wicklow District Association, the Wilts Consuls' meeting at Devizes, the Touring Bureau and Library, the Club Road Books, reciprocal arrangements with foreign touring clubs, and the Club Costumes.
• The Council (opens in a new tab)

  Report of the monthly Council meeting at the Great Central Hotel, Carlisle, on 7 April 1900, with the attendance of Chief and Representative Councillors and Resolutions 145-152 (the Ireland Road Book report, the date of the Half-yearly General Meeting, the form of the 1901 ticket, a more frequent Gazette, grants to District Associations, the Ligue Internationale congress, direction posts). Appended are the Rights and Privileges Committee's reports (the Club's locus standi against private Bills such as the Aberdeen Improvement Bill, and railway rates for cycles) and the Map and Road Book, Ireland and Foreign and Colonial Touring committees' interim reports.
• District Associations (opens in a new tab)

  Reports from the Dublin (annual meeting, Co. Wicklow membership, limelight lecture), Leicestershire (runs for May under Captain R. Barber), Liverpool, Lothians, Manchester, Metropolitan and Nottingham District Associations, with Chief Consul and run notices.
• Currente Calamo (opens in a new tab)

  F. T. Bidlake's column on the free-wheel controversy: he answers Mr. Freeston and Tom Bowling on the London to York road (Hitchin, Norman Cross, Great Gonerby), arguing that free wheels teach the cure of backlash and compel coasting, and discusses oils, including a three-in-one sample.
• The Physiology and Hygiene of Cycling (opens in a new tab)

  E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S., opens a series with the anatomy and physiology of the human frame as it bears on riding: the spinal column, hip and blade bones, joints and synovial fluid, voluntary muscles such as the biceps and triceps, and the circulation and breathing that explain second wind.
• Prospective Tours (opens in a new tab)

  Members' advertisements for travelling companions for May to July tours, including North of Ireland, London to John o' Groats, France to Norway and Scotland, a Whitsun round from Worcester via Stratford-on-Avon, and an Alpine route from Coire by the Stelvio, Maloja and St. Gothard passes.
• Reviews (opens in a new tab)

  Notices of Arthur H. Norway's Highways and Byways in Yorkshire (Macmillan, illustrated by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson), the C.T.C. Handbook and Guide, Foreign Edition 1900, and Bartholomew's Contoured Cyclists' Touring Map of England and Wales.
• Chemico-Cycling Jottings (opens in a new tab)

  F. H. Leeds on lubricants for ball bearings, answering C. W. Brown on Stauffer grease and Mr. Dunn on thick cylinder oil, with Leeds favouring a pure mineral oil or vaseline, and on why aluminium plating of steel tube is impractical; continues with notes on adulteration and fusel oil.
• Mechanical and Practical (opens in a new tab)

  C. W. Brown on show-time novelties that never reach the road (spring frames, the Simpson chain, the Kohler gear), the folly of over-light machines, leather chain-cases, and the drawbacks of eccentric crank-bracket and rear fork-end adjustments compared with the Humber swinging bracket.
• The Ladies' Page (opens in a new tab)

  Constance Everett-Green on Easter touring and spring weather, the wood pavements of Park Lane and the Bayswater Road, flint punctures and the "puncture fiend", and a Fleuss tyre repair.
• Companion to the Road Book (opens in a new tab)

  Haydon Perry's Vol. III article on the Wirral and Cheshire routes, with the history of Hugh Lupus and Chester, Little and Great Mollington, Neston, Birkenhead, Little Meols and West Kirby, with an illustration of the House of King Charles I., Chester.
• Mechanical Advancement (opens in a new tab)

  Notes on Professor Sharp's testing machine for measuring friction loss in chain-driven and chainless cycles, shown at the Midland Cycle Show at Birmingham and built by the Garrard Mfg. Co., with Prof. R. C. Carpenter's earlier chain-loss figures from Engineering, 1898.
• The Swinford Bridge Case (opens in a new tab)

  Report of Cannan v. Earl of Abingdon in the Queen's Bench Division on 3 April before Justices Bigham and Phillimore, in which a bicycle was held to be a carriage liable to the twopenny toll at Swinford Bridge, citing Taylor v. Goodwin and Williams v. Ellis; the Rights and Privileges Committee's case, argued by Mr. Glen.
• Automobilism (opens in a new tab)

  Douglas Leechman on the Automobile Show: the motor bicycle (the Werner), motor tricycles and quadricycles (Dion-Dunlop, Progress, Enfield, Whippet), and motor cars including the La Sinere, de Dion, Renault, Wolseley, Ivel and Canadian electric cars.
• Correspondence (opens in a new tab)

  Members' letters, led by the controversy over a weekly Gazette (Mr. Beatty's letter, J. G. Maclean, Sheffield Blade) and extending to tramlines and road surfaces, tour reports, the cycling department of the Army and Navy Stores, and lubricating oils and grease.
• Answers to Correspondents (opens in a new tab)

  Brief replies to numbered members' queries on machines and fittings, including the Quadrant Chainless, the Challis alarm, St. Crispin and Lamplugh's tyres, free wheels, rim brakes, the Hub Two Speed Gear and candle lamps.
• List of Candidates, May, 1900 (opens in a new tab)

  Names and addresses of candidates for membership of the C.T.C., arranged by county from Bedfordshire onward, with Articles 6 and 7 on election procedure and the notice of the fifteenth-of-the-month deadline.
• List of Candidates for Life Membership, May, 1900 (opens in a new tab)

  Article 8 and the 1888 resolutions on Life Membership (composition of five guineas), with one candidate listed, K. P. Vaughan Morgan of Brechin Place, London, who joined in March 1896.