June 1900
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Articles in this issue
- Explains the C.T.C.'s part in the campaign against the railway companies' cycle-carriage charges, from its costly opposition to the South-Eastern and London, Chatham & Dover amalgamation to the Rights and Privileges Committee's draft Cycle Carriage Bill and the deputation to the President of the Board of Trade; also covers the Edinburgh and Aberdeen Corporation Bills, the universal lights-on-vehicles by-law correspondence with the Local Government Board, brakeless machines, and a defence of the Club's danger and caution boards, e.g. at Long Ditton.
- Notices for the Counties of Worcester and Hereford (Rev. F. K. Clarke as acting Consul), the Wilts Consuls' meeting at Devizes and the Annual Meet at Bradford-on-Avon on 16 June, an appeal for members wronged on the road to apply to the Rights and Privileges Committee, a list of District Associations with their Hon. Secretaries, the new Touring Bureau and Library, and the Customs arrangements with foreign governments.
- Minutes of the monthly Council meeting at the Guildhall, Bath, on 12 May 1900 with R.C. O. H. Beatty in the chair, sanctioning a Dublin and Wicklow District Association, and noting that the next meeting will be at Edinburgh on 9 June; includes the Interim Report of the Rights and Privileges Committee on the Sunderland bridge toll, the Swinford Bridge case (Cannan v. Lord Abingdon), the Edinburgh Improvement Bill's eight-mile limit and a Balham tandem collision with a cab.
- Committee reports of the Cheshire District Association (Chester, 5 May, Birkenhead's liability for bicycles stolen at Woodside Ferry), the Leicestershire Association's fixtures, the Lothians Association's negotiations with Edinburgh hotels and the Northumberland and Durham Association, which discussed the Tyne Dock road and admission to private parks such as Raby and Brancepeth.
- Haydon Perry's Volume II route notes for Route 52, Gloucester to Stroud, Part 1 via Stonehouse, describing Gloucester's canal and Severn scenery, Quedgeley, Standish and Randwick, with a further digression via Upton-on-Severn and Tewkesbury and an illustration of Worcester Cathedral.
- Members' advertisements for touring companions, among them a Connemara fishing tour, a Lake District fortnight, tours of Normandy, Brittany and the Continent, a Donegal trip and a Norway journey leaving Harwich on 23 June via Hamburg and Gothenburg.
- F. T. Bidlake's column answering a correspondent on whether a man unsteady in his walk can ride, on tricycles versus bicycles, a barrister's complaint about the law on bells, and the damage done to cycles sent by rail unaccompanied, with remarks on 1-inch racing tyres and the C.T.C. Gazette's own correspondence.
- Part II by E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S., on cycling for both sexes and all ages: why the rider's weight is propelled rather than supported, the benefits of the bicycle to women, and the age limits, citing Major Knox Holmes who took up a tricycle at seventy-four.
- Archibald Sharp's continued chapter on driving gears other than chain, discussing two-speed hub gears such as the Collier, Rambler bi-gear, Hub and Planet, E. H. Hodgkinson's three-speed gear made by F. Hucklebridge, gear ratios, drum brakes and a table of revolutions and percentage of power used.
- A. W. Rumney's note on his two-speed Collier-geared machine and the free-wheel controversy, recording runs from Lynton to Ilfracombe and Devon and Cornwall hills, and a plea that clergy keep churches open, listing those found open or locked in Sussex and Devon.
- C. L. Freeston's impressions of the Automobile Club's Thousand Miles' Trial, which he followed throughout, praising the cars' performance on hills such as Dunmail Raise, the Enfield quadricycle and tricycles, the Hon. C. S. Rolls's Panhard, and noting the motorists' debt to the C.T.C.'s Road Book and caution boards.
- C. W. Brown's monthly notes: a condemnation of a cheap bargain-hunters' cycle, the new crossed-tube 'Referee' frame, a bayonet-joint pump connection, a Singer free-wheel safety and a soldier-cyclist's machine with a saddle-lug support leg.
- Constance Everett-Green on choosing free-wheel machines and foot-brakes, advice on learning to repair punctures with an offer from the Wincycle Trading Co. at 47 Victoria Street, and notes on frames, tyres and dress.
- C. L. F. and W. O. M. review Rev. Alex. A. Boddy's From the Egyptian Rameleh (Gay & Bird), Surrey's Capital (Homeland Association) and a map of the Paris district, Autour de Paris (Sud), with other guides to the Paris Exhibition.
- Members' letters on whether the Gazette should become weekly, tourist tips from Normandy and Blackford in Perthshire, and the continuing dispute over free wheels and Mr. Pennell's claims, one letter from W. D. Wansbrough of Lincoln.
- Brief replies to members' queries on lamps, the B.S.A. hub, Lucas's Acetylator, brakes for free-wheel machines, the Paris Exhibition itineraries and the Chief Consuls' powers over hotel appointments.
- The month's list of candidates for membership, with Articles 6 and 7 on election, grouped by county and country, including English counties, Scotland, the United States of America and other foreign members.
- Article 8 and the February 1888 resolutions on Life Membership, with the single candidate F. W. Weston of Boston, Mass., a Chief Consul who joined in January 1880; followed by Miscellaneous Pars.