August 1900
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Articles in this issue
- Reports the Bill promoted by the C.T.C. to amend the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts and secure fair treatment for cyclists from the railway companies, read a first time in the Commons on 20 July; a note on 'furious riding' and the Cardiff Stipendiary's ruling that someone must be in danger, a notice of Light Railway Commissioners' inquiries, and the repeal of the ipso facto rule for District Associations.
- Chief Consular vacancies, a notice by H. M. Hunter of a proposed Glamorgan District Association, the Rights and Privileges Committee appeal and list of District Associations with their Hon. Secretaries, and the Touring Bureau and Library, Road Books, Companion, Foreign Handbook, customs, Paris Exhibition hotels and itineraries, reciprocal foreign clubs, Thomas Cook tours and club costumes.
- Minutes of the Council meeting at the Imperial and Windsor Hotel, Belfast, on 14 July 1900 with O. H. Beatty in the chair, appointing Duncan Milligan Chief Consul of Surrey and Sydney Sparke for Glamorgan, and printing the interim reports of the Finance, Rights and Privileges, Map and Road Book, Foreign and Colonial Touring, and General Purposes Committees, including the return to a metal ticket and the N.C.U. conference dispute.
- Reports of the Dublin, Leicestershire, Liverpool, Manchester and Yorkshire (West Riding) Associations: the Dublin gas-roller injunction and Dundrum-Enniskerry light railway, Leicestershire's August runs, Liverpool's Woodside Ferry charges and Smithdown Lane, the Manchester broken-glass deputation and E. Russell of Harrogate elected West Riding secretary.
- Account of the conference at the Crewe Arms Hotel, Crewe, on 30 June, with Chief Consul John Naylor and R. H. Owen, passing resolutions on the county's roads, thorns and hedge cuttings, two lights on carts, broken glass, light railways between Warrington and Runcorn, and limestone road metal.
- F. H. Leeds describes an optical mirage of water seen on a wood-paved road on a hot afternoon, with advice on when to look for it, and a second site at Lordship Park, Stoke Newington.
- C. Edwardes describes Corsica's roads and weather for the cyclist, the 112-mile east coast run from Bastia to Bonifacio, the road through Ghisoni and the Inzecca defile, and the ascent of the Col de Sorba; illustrated with a view of Ajaccio.
- Report of the Chancery action on 7 July in which Mr Justice Cozens Hardy granted an injunction restraining Harry Hawley of the Bull Hotel, Stony Stratford, from displaying a 'Cyclists' Touring Club' board.
- Part IV by E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S., on clothing, diet and accidents: free wheels, tyres, wool garments and dress for women, what to eat and drink, and first aid for faintness and injuries.
- Members' advertisements seeking companions for tours in Scotland, Ireland, Normandy, Brittany, Switzerland, Germany, Paris and the Exhibition, and a winter tour in South America.
- C. L. F. reviews Percy Dearmer's Highways and Byways in Normandy illustrated by Joseph Pennell, Paris Exhibition guides including Black's and the Anglo-American, Homeland Association handbooks and local cyclists' guides to north-eastern England, Falkirk and Bristol.
- F. T. Bidlake answers Mr Pennell and other critics on free wheels, defending ball-race ratchets against clutches, discussing abuse of free wheeling, toe-clips and riding with one leg disabled.
- John Wm. Taylor, M.R.C.S., on first-aid treatment of wounds for cyclists: saprophytic and parasitic bacteria, why water should not be used on a wound, and carrying permanganate, boracic acid and iodoform gauze.
- Haydon Perry's Volume II notes for Route 195, St. Albans to Hertford, covering St. Albans Abbey and the martyrdom of Alban, Offa's shrine, Panshanger Park and Cole Green, illustrated by A. R. Quinton.
- Report of the unsuccessful appeal of marine engineer Chas. Thomas Grimwood against 14 days' imprisonment for furious riding in Bute Street, Cardiff, before the Recorder, with comment from the South Wales Daily News.
- C. W. Brown on how side-slipping can be avoided: chainless safeties, single-tube tyres, tyre mouldings, wheelbase and saddle height, with figures; followed by notes on the Gartor chain lubricant.
- C. L. Freeston's account of an unofficial tour by fourteen C.T.C. members through Loch Lomond, Arrochar, Tarbet, Inversnaid, Loch Tay and Tummel Bridge to Pitlochry, staying at hydros from Shandon, with baggage sent ahead; photographs on Loch Lomond.
- Constance Everett-Green on whether ladies should tour by bicycle, what to carry, how to pack luggage in two saddle bags, and summer touring dress.
- Members' letters on Paris and touring notes, a warning about arrest near French frontier forts, cycling the Stelvio and a ten-day Swiss tour, Egypt and Italy, septic poisoning, the despised tricycle, the physiology of cycling, the rule of the road, free wheels and double brakes, paraffin lamps and the Dursley-Pedersen bicycle.
- Brief replies to members' queries on machines, saddles, brakes, chains, gears and tyres, and a lady's solitary tour.
- Printed list of candidates for membership of the Cyclists' Touring Club arranged by county, from Bedfordshire to the London districts, with their addresses.