January 1902
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CTC Gazette (January 1902). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/ctc-gazette/vol1902-01/
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Articles in this issue
- New-year stocktaking: membership returns for 1901 (41,137 renewals and 10,036 new members, 51,339 in all), the C.T.C. against its rival bodies, the Cannan bridge-toll case, a run of cycling fatalities in the month and the Cullompton assault prosecution.
- F. T. Bidlake on county boundaries and the upkeep of main roads, with a single central road authority as the remedy; continues on p.7 with the tramcar question and a note on whether a river is a road.
- Verse for cyclists: a poem from the Pall Mall Gazette on the autumn road and the wheels that bear the rider, and A. Capes Tarbolton's piece on the sun, the mist and the crank on the steed with the whirling rim.
- Emmie Tatham and three other lady cyclists take train and boat in August: the steep climb from Appenweier, a night's lodging at Alexanderschanze, the Freiburg and Hollenthal leg, the Rhine at Laufenburg and Lake Constance, and on to Reutte and Ober-Ammergau, with King Ludwig's castles.
- Constance Everett-Green on the year's ladies' novelties at the Shows, dress-guards and drop-frame machines, and the reply of E. A. Reynolds-Ball on the practice of carrying babies on bicycles, with the editor's comment.
- H. Graves on the scorcher: the word's meaning, the pace that makes a scorcher, the Fens and the police-court register, and the argument that the speed of cyclists should be governed by the same law as motor cars.
- Archibald Sharp's survey of the 1901 Shows: feather-weight machines, the diamond frame and the Triumph roadster, tandem two-speed gears, free-wheel clutches, brakes, Gibb's elliptic chainwheel and tyre fastenings, with the weight of machines discussed in terms of power.
- C. L. Freeston on the year's new accessories: Archibald Sharp's hub with a divided spindle for removing the back tyre without taking off the wheel, the Beaumont and other removable handle-bars (with Stevenson & Couldwell's folding bar), the Coventry Eagle 'Tow me' coupling, the Rex lamp bracket, and H. G. Turner's Bi-carrier stand and panniers at the National Show.
- Douglas Leechman's report on motor bicycles at the Shows: side-slip and gyroscopic action, the placing of the motor, Werner-type machines (Motor Manufacturing Co., Daw motor), Humber, Triumph, Ariel, Excelsior, Centaur and Quadrant, and the Brown Brothers, Carlton, Rex, Simms, Progress and Ormonde motors.
- The Comtesse de Courson's cycling ride through La Sologne from Orleans: the Loire crossing, Nouan le Fuzelier, La Ferte St Aubin, the Hotel Tatin at La Motte Beuvron, Vierzon and the 78 km to Bourges, with the cathedral and Jacques Coeur's house.
- W. Rees Jeffreys on the Committee's work against railway companies that disclaim liability for bicycles in transit, with a table of claims for 1900 and 1901 by company, member, damage, action taken and result.
- C. W. Brown on the wheel-base of motor bicycles and why it should be long, a reply to Mr Cooper on frames, Mr A. M. Rowland's front-wheel vibration damper, and the Hubbard Constrictor tyre, with a note on repairing it.
- The Road Improvement Association's reply to Mr Long, President of the Local Government Board: 1,879 highway authorities, the case for a central authority as an intelligence department and for grants-in-aid, the width of main roads and the lack of traffic statistics.
- An unsigned reprint from the County Council Times on whether a bicycle is a carriage: the Shaldon and Swinford bridge tolls, Mr Justice Wright's judgment, the Highway Act and the Local Government Act of 1888, and the rules on riding on footpaths.
- Members' letters: the proposed motor cycling section of the Metropolitan District Association with W. Rees Jeffreys as chairman, motor bicycle experience, the Garrard free wheel, a folklore column, a chain cyclometer, the Bowden rim brake, a wrong route description, and the B.S.A. frame.
- The Council meeting of 14 December 1901 at the Clarendon Hotel, Oxford, under W. Kendall Burnett: attendance, resolutions 279 to 287 on consular resignations and the Rights and Privileges report, and reports of committees on thorns, unrolled metal and road hazards.
- Notices from headquarters: subscriptions due on 1 January, consular vacancies for Warwickshire, the Gazette index, the canvassing pamphlet, the Rights and Privileges Committee, the Touring Bureau and library, road books, the Companion to the Road Book, maps, customs advice, steamship concessions and the Club costumes.
- Reports from the district associations for December 1901: Antrim and Down, Leicestershire, Liverpool, the Lothians, Manchester, Northumberland and Durham, Nottingham, Preston and North Lancashire, Warwickshire and Birmingham, and Yorkshire (West Riding), with their annual meetings and business.
- The editor's replies on a paradox gear, a two-speed gear with free pedals, rim brakes, a machine recommended for comfortable riding, a Raleigh against a Rover, and a tyre's durability.
- The C.T.C. list of candidates for election in January 1902, with their addresses and local clubs, arranged by county and country, from Berkshire and Cheshire through Lancashire to the foreign and United States members, continued on p.55-56.
- Candidates for life membership with their addresses, the conditions for life membership under Article 8, and the 1888 resolutions of a General Meeting on the life membership fund and its trustees.