February 1902
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Articles in this issue
- Renewal of subscriptions by 31 January, with the fine and the last issue for those who do not renew, and the protests over the five-guinea composition fee for Life Membership. It also takes up Mr Justice Wright's ruling that a special Act's toll reached only horse-drawn vehicles, now going to the Higher Court, and the death of the Rev. Henry Selby-Hele near Peterborough.
- Members are asked to write to their MP in support of the Roads Improvement Association's demand for a public inquiry into highway administration, and to send replies to the Club's Secretary or to the R.I.A. in Parliament Street.
- The editor, writing in the first person from now on, recalls the contributing staff of the Gazette and Violet Lorne's Ladies' Page, and explains that Mr Freeston's departure will move the editorial opinions into Answers to Correspondents. He also records a disagreement with Mr Freeston over crank length, favouring 7 in. and 70 in. gears.
- O. H. Leeney rides from Pau by Oloron and Bedous over the Port d'Urdos to Canfranc, Jaca and Huesca and on to Saragossa, finding the Spanish side of the Pyrenees bare and dry. He catches the C.T.C. Road Book out in calling the road beyond the frontier a bad surface, when it was one of the best he had ridden.
- Archibald Sharp concludes his Shows notes with corrections to the January article's block placements and a multiplication error in the Paradox variable gear, and with the Perfect featherweight bicycle of the Aspley Engineering Co.
- F. T. Bidlake argues against carrying babies or loads in front of a bicycle, while a baby-basket on a tandem seat pillar is a safe alternative. He also reports on the motor-bicycles at the Shows and Highmoor's paper on ancient roads and milestones in the County Council Times.
- Constance Everett-Green advises on looking after bicycles through winter, on which tyres throw less mud, and on warm clothing for winter riding, including woollen gloves, cloth gaiters and Fox's spiral puttees.
- T. H. Holding describes his new Gipsy tent, with its roof, back, front and side dimensions, the spreaders and the oiled roof. He compares it with the A tent, which weighed 2 lb, and recommends the book Cycle and Camp.
- C. Edwardes writes on the sporting side of the western Lake District, the Wrynose and Hard Knott passes, the Roman camp on Hard Knott and the Cockley Beck farmhouse register. He concludes that the railway has ruined the old pack-horse road.
- Douglas Leechman reports on the Paris Automobile and Cycle Show, finding the ordinary cycles deteriorated and the motor bicycles poor. He describes the two-speed gears (Jacquelin, Peugeot, G. & J.) and the brakes shown by Terrot, Bela Kohn, Lemoine and the T.C.F.
- W. Rees Jeffreys reviews the leading articles in the Times, Daily Mail, Globe, Manchester Courier, Truth and the Daily Chronicle on the Roads Improvement Association's memorandum on highway administration reform.
- F. H. Leeds reports photometer trials of cycle lamps, the Asp, Lucas paraffin and candle lamps, with their relative efficiency by weight. He follows with cleaning advice for hands after paraffin and oil, and tyre repairs using cotton wool and sulphur.
- A review of J. H. Knight's Light Motor Cars and Voiturettes (Iliffe, 3s. 6d.), covering the Benz, New Orleans, Decauville, M.M.C., Argyll and De Dion voiturettes and the Werner, Minerva and Singer motor bicycles.
- A lady member advises on cheap foreign tours, with France by La Marguerite to Boulogne at half-price bicycle tickets and a route by Montreuil-sur-Mer, Abbeville and Paris for about five francs a day. She then compares Germany, by Harwich and Hamburg, and Cologne or Cleves as the starting point for South Germany.
- T. J. Goodlake rides westward from Naples past Posillipo through the grotto, Bagnoli and Pozzuoli, across the Phlegrean Fields to Baia and Cape Misenum, and ends at a by-road that stops abruptly at the water.
- Reprinted from The Law Times, Part I sets out the luggage clause of the railway Acts and Britten v. Great Northern Railway (1899), where Mr Justice Channell held a bicycle is not luggage, quoting Chief Justice Cockburn in Macrow v. Great Western Railway. It also covers section 7 of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 and the London and North-Western's cycle contract note. Part II, on cycles left in a cloak-room, turns on Parker v. South-Eastern Railway (1877) and the Singer Manufacturing Co. case.
- Short paragraphs from the press on cycling accidents and court cases, among them the killing of a cyclist near Loughrea, a Bristol rider struck by a cow, cases from Wakefield, Chester and Belfast, and the Alps lecture by W. Rees Jeffreys at Morley Memorial College on 1 March.
- Letters on the decline in membership and the hotel discount tariff and its enforcement, why one member is resigning, the want of comfortable boarding-houses for lady members in Bath, motor bicycles, automobilists and the Club, the Motor-Cycle Section of the M.D.A., rim brakes and the Hub two-speed gear, a Glasgow district association, cyclometers and speeds, with the editor's replies. A letter on the crank-to-gear ratio, answered by the editor, closes the department.
- Renewing members' letters praising the Gazette and the Club: a ticket that secured a bicyclist's passage at Bonn-am-Rhein, a recruiter's appeal for new members, a tour in Belgium and Holland, and a Guildford member's saving on a Jersey hotel.
- Replies on machine choice (Brooks's B 90 saddle, the Hub two-speed gear, the Sunbeam and the Perfect), rim brakes and featherweight machines, and the footpath law, which does not let a cyclist use the footpath because a road is under repair.
- Two member notices: a lady in Monte Carlo seeks a companion for daily cycle rides, and another asks whether any member knows of a cottage near Westbourne Park for weekend cycling.
- The monthly meeting at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham, on 4 January 1902: the re-election of Chief Consuls, the resignations of Mr d'Almaine (Berks) and Mr Lowe (Stafford), new Chief Consuls for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Man, Shropshire, Suffolk and Anglesey, and the 1902 meeting fixtures.
- The Annual General Meeting at Nottingham on 14 March, the 5s. subscription and the penalty after 31 January, the Glasgow district meeting on 12 February, and the 1901 index. It also records Chief Consul vacancies in Cornwall, Devon and Essex, the Sussex and Warwick Consuls, and the C.T.C. At Home and Abroad pamphlet.
- Reports of the Antrim and Down District Association (third annual meeting, Imperial Hotel, Belfast, 10 January, with a committee rule adopted), and of the Leicestershire, Liverpool, Lothians, Manchester, Northumberland and Durham, Nottingham, and Warwickshire and Birmingham associations.
- The candidates for membership in February 1902, arranged by county, with the Club's rules on election (Articles 6 and 7) and the notice that applications must reach the Secretary by the 15th of the preceding month.