December 1900

Articles in this issue

• Editorial (opens in a new tab)

  Reports 121 further pledges of M.P.s to the Cyclists' Bills after the General Election, with a supplementary list; explains why Ireland is left out of the Vehicles' Lights Bill, urges renewal of subscriptions, and covers the Representative Councillor elections, the new C.T.C. Handbook and Year Book, the hedge-cuttings and broken-glass nuisance, Highway Administration, Forth Bridge tolls, a Devonshire councillor's cycle-tax proposal, and Professor Archibald Sharp's report on a broken Elswick steering-tube that killed F. D. Gaddum.
• Official Notices (opens in a new tab)

  Chief Consular vacancies (Bedford, Monmouth, Warwick, Cardigan, Canada, India and Switzerland), the Rights and Privileges Committee, District Associations, the Touring Bureau and Library, the British and Irish and Continental Road Books, the Companion to the Road Book, maps, customs arrangements, reciprocal agreements with foreign touring clubs, Thomas Cook organised tours and the club costumes.
• The Council (opens in a new tab)

  Report of the November 10th Council meeting at the Gloucester Hotel, Brighton, chaired by O. H. Beatty: resolutions, committee reports (Map and Road Book, Roads Improvement Association, Organised Tours) and the Rights and Privileges Committee's interim report on railway damage claims, refused teas, the five-pound hedge-cutting reward poster, toll bridges and 8 mph by-laws.
• District Associations (opens in a new tab)

  Committee reports of the Antrim and Down, Dublin, Leicestershire, Liverpool, Lothians, Manchester, Northumberland and Durham, Nottingham and Preston and North Lancashire District Associations, with the Roads Improvement Association's report and a Farnham County Court cyclist damages case (Bennett v. Patton).
• A Run to San Marino (opens in a new tab)

  C. Edwardes's illustrated account of cycling from Rimini up the zigzag road to the Republic of San Marino, staying at the Albergo Titano and Albergo Mighetti, seeing the Government Palace, church and castle, and the return descent.
• The Annual Election of Representative Councillors, Nominations (opens in a new tab)

  Schedule of candidates nominated for Representative Councillor by county and country, with members, councillors required and addresses, followed by the nominees' professions, proposers and seconders; contests arise in Lancashire, Middlesex and Surrey.
• Election Addresses (opens in a new tab)

  Addresses to members from candidates W. P. Gilbertson (North Lancashire), G. H. Bourne Barton and W. Rees Jeffreys (Middlesex), A. W. Rumney, Octavius Beatty, Arthur Candler and James Williams (Surrey), stressing railway carriage, highway reform and tramway questions.
• Tandems for Mixed Crews (opens in a new tab)

  The Lord Advocate for Scotland, A. Graham Murray, argues that a tandem with the lady in front is the better mount, comparing mounting, steering and frame length, describing his Raleigh No. 15 double-steering machine and Osmond tandems, and recommending brakes, the Hub two-speed gear and foot-rests.
• Reviews (opens in a new tab)

  C. L. F. reviews Rev. Alexander A. Boddy's Days in Galilee, and Scenes in Judaea, A. W. Rumney's A Cyclist's Note-Book and Duncan Moul's Week-ends in Dickens-Land.
• Currente Calamo (opens in a new tab)

  F. T. Bidlake on three-speed and Hub gears, free-wheel versus fixed pedals in side-slip conditions, tricycles on ice, lights for ridden horses, J. B. Dunlop's spring fork and record claims, and cotton clothing for vegetarians.
• Companion to the Road Book (opens in a new tab)

  Haydon Perry's Volume III notes on Route 236 alternative, Ilkley to Skipton via Bolton Bridge, and Route 251 reversed, Skipton to Clitheroe and Preston: Bolton Abbey and the Strid, Pendle Hill, Gisburn, Sawley, Clitheroe, Whalley Abbey and Stonyhurst.
• Three Weeks in Spain (opens in a new tab)

  A cyclist's account of a Spanish tour: landing at Corunna, riding to Santiago de Compostela, the train to Madrid, the Escorial and a bull-fight.
• Mechanical and Practical (opens in a new tab)

  C. W. Brown on plated rims and rim brakes, one versus two brakes for free-wheel machines, back-pedalling brakes, low crank-brackets and string jamming gear-cases, with notes on the Golden Sunbeam, Axeline and Rangraphine lubricants, a Stanley Feast repairing strip and Pilcher's Red Seal oils.
• Motor Bicycling for Ladies (opens in a new tab)

  Isabel Marks describes riding the Perks motor bicycle made by the Singer Cycle Co. at Coventry, its two-horse-power motor in the rear wheel, its controls, and its behaviour on greasy roads.
• The Ladies' Page (opens in a new tab)

  Constance Everett-Green on cycling in mud: skirt cut, mudguards, tyre clearance at the shows, paraffin on the frame, laying up a bicycle for winter, and the collar controversy.
• Prospective Tours (opens in a new tab)

  Members' notices seeking touring companions, including a Kensington lady, a lady planning a ten-month trip to Cairo, Italy and Bavaria, and a south France and Riviera tour.
• Correspondence (opens in a new tab)

  Members' letters on the rule of the road, dogs and cyclists, cattle driving after dark, touring notes from Devonshire, French hostility to English visitors, Tyrolese cycling costume, cotton and wool underclothing, celluloid collars, cycles by rail, the free-wheel's origins, the Dunlop guarantee, anti-vibration devices, paraffin lamps, sugar solution in tyres, the Hub two-speed gear and Echo shields.
• Answers to Correspondents (opens in a new tab)

  Brief replies to members' queries on lamps, machines, tyres, gears, the provisional membership scheme, back-pedal brakes, paraffin and colza oils and the Vehicles' Lights Bill.
• List of Candidates, December, 1900 (opens in a new tab)

  The month's list of candidates for membership by county, with Articles 6 and 7 of the Club's articles on election.