March 1902
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CTC Gazette (March 1902). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/ctc-gazette/vol1902-03/
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Articles in this issue
- The coming Annual General Meeting at Nottingham on 14 March: adoption of the Council's Annual Report and accounts, the proposal to throw the Club open to all tourists, and the motions (Council and Chairman Kendall Burnett) to admit automobilists and let family members join on payment of three shillings.
- Notice to members attending the Nottingham Annual General Meeting: Humber and Raleigh offer works visits on the Friday afternoon, with the Rev. W. H. Kynaston and J. T. Masser conducting parties to Beeston and Lenton from the Midland Station at 2.10 p.m.
- Allen Clarke's verse on the bicycle, the spring and the fellowship of the Wheel, with the lanes, streams and moorland heights of the season.
- By the Editor, continuing last month's discourse on crank lengths and gears: the Hub two-speed (7 in. cranks with 77 in. on the high speed, against 70 in. fixed), his season on a cross-framed Raleigh and a Rover with 2 in. and 1 3/4 in. Dunlop tyres, the Humber mechanically jointed frame, the Featherweight Centaur, Fox Brothers' spiral puttees and the lamp correspondence to come.
- C. Edwardes on skating and cycling on Dutch ice: the Harwich to Rotterdam passage, Monnikendam harbour and the Zuyder Zee, and a January 1901 cycle run across the Zuyder Zee, made by a companion while the author skated alongside.
- Douglas Leechman's first chapter in a series for members on motor-cycles: the four-stroke action of the explosion motor, electric ignition, carburettors, cooling and the levers of control, then a detailed description of the Singer motor-bicycle (motor in the back wheel, magneto ignition, starting and riding it, lubrication).
- An open letter to the Editor by J. Veitch Wilson, answering Langdale-Smith on lamp troubles: the author's King of the Road lamps burning out, linseed and axle oil found in samples, and the best oils and wicks.
- C. Edwardes, 'Its Sporting Side for the Cyclist', concluded: the coast roads from Ravenglass, Drigg and Seascale to Gosforth and Calder Bridge, the Wastwater and Wasdale Head roads, and the hills of Eskdale, with a note on Sleathwaite and Birker.
- F. T. Bidlake on the Raleigh firm's liquid brazing against Mr. W. E. Heys's letter, on road surveyors and county councils short of money for repairs, the sprocket as a diminutive of spoke, and the musical rhythm of pedalling.
- Haydon Perry's Vol. III, Route 117 (reversed), Preston to Liverpool by Penwortham Bridge, Longton, Hoole, Tarleton, Burscough and Ormskirk, with Jeremiah Horrocks and the transit of Venus of 1639, Lathom House and its siege, and Ormskirk church and town; then Route 135, Manchester to Leeds by Oldham, Delph, Standedge and Huddersfield, with Robin Hood's tomb at Kirklees.
- By Charles Steele: advice to a would-be buyer on keeping an old machine, the choice between a standard pattern and a special specification, the use the cycle is to be put to, and the gear, free wheel, tyre size and spring-frame questions.
- The standing notice inviting members to write for companions on tours and rides, with the personal notices printed under it: a gentleman seeking a companion for a short Easter tour, a Midlands gentleman, a tourist for Switzerland or Germany, a lady offering to join a party at Easter, and a companion wanted from London to Bristol on 10 April.
- By Constance Everett-Green: the crank lengths for ladies' machines (6¼ in. cranks with about a 63 in. gear, and 6½ in. with about 68 in.), dress and conduct on a cycle, and a padlock chain as a deterrent against the professional cycle thief, with a boy's evening shoe recommended as footwear.
- A communicated report of the Association's first annual supper, at which T. H. Holding and the members erected tents in the hall, Nansen's tent and the 'Gipsy' tent were discussed, a small entrance fee was defeated, a Committee was appointed, and a typed magazine under J. H. Skilton was agreed.
- By W. Rees Jeffreys on the rise in applications for light railways on public roads (385 miles, 319 of them along roads), and the six proposals the Roads Improvement Association put to the President of the Board of Trade, Gerald Balfour, at a deputation on 22 January.
- The Club's deputation to the Highways Committee of the London County Council on 23 January 1902 (Rees Jeffreys, Candler, Dawson, Milligan and Steele): the Thames Embankment surface, cycles on the L.C.C. electric tramcars, the prohibition of hooded vans, and encroachments on the carriage way.
- The first meeting of the Motor Cycle Section of the Metropolitan District Association on 11 February at the Society of Arts, Adelphi: the makers exhibiting (Enfield, Excelsior, Singer, Werner, Bradbury and others), the discussion under Rees Jeffreys, and the new paper Motor Cycling.
- The Bath Hotel meeting of 12 February: about sixty members, Dr Campbell Munro elected chairman, a resolution to form a District Association for Glasgow covering Dumbarton, Lanark and Renfrew, and William M. Collins's notice of his application to the March Council.
- Rees Jeffreys's further article on a new road from Starch Green in the Goldhawk Road, west to the Colnbrook and Slough Road and on to the Thames, some 15 miles, with three tracks and a private Bill to authorise it.
- The club formed after 'Rides with an Object' appeared in the Gazette: Sunday runs, a monthly week-end run and four-day tours such as the Winchester and Stonehenge tour, the coterie's objects, and H. B. Steele's request for names to join from Sydney House.
- Short paragraphs and press cuttings: a Birmingham lecture by J. S. Cornwell on 8 March, a note on the hobby-horse in a Stoke Poges window, a Stockport doctor fined for riding on the footpath, the National Library of Ireland's wish for missing Gazettes, and bicycle cases tried at the county courts.
- Members' letters under their own small-capital heads: Lamps (Langdale-Smith, a Fakenham doctor and others on Lucas, acetylene and candle lamps, oils and wicks), Information Wanted, Prospective Touring, the Hub two-speed gear, the Companion to the Road Book, cloak-room charges, notes on the cycle shows, the rights of hotel-keepers, the decline in membership, the bibliography of the bicycle, automobilists and the Club, motor-bicycles, cycling in the Alps, spring frames, carrying babies on bicycles and motor ignition.
- The Editor's answers to members' questions on gear and chain-wheel sizes, saddles (Brooks B 90 and St. Crispin), rim brakes, tyre makers and machine specifications, and the Life Membership fee.
- Letters from members giving their reasons for renewing their subscriptions, with the value of the Gazette, the Handbook and hotel discounts, and a discussion of the decline in membership.
- The monthly Council meeting at the Station Hotel, York, on 8 February 1902: Chief Consuls appointed or reappointed for Wales, Staffordshire (John Naylor), Berkshire, the Channel Islands, Devon, Essex, Gloucester and Norfolk, the Statement of Accounts and the Finance, Rights and Privileges and Foreign Touring committee reports adopted, with the Finance Committee's proposal of five- and ten-year commutation, and the committees' reports on pp.160-161.
- The notice of the Annual General Meeting at the Castle Gate Lecture Hall, Nottingham, on 14 March, with its agenda and the notices of motion by R. C. O. H. Beatty, J. Pennell and S. G. Buchanan-Wollaston, and the Council's motion to set the subscription at five shillings with commutation for five or ten years.
- Reports from eleven district associations: Antrim and Down (Belfast), Leicestershire (the March runs), Liverpool (a Danger Board and a Smoking Concert on 13 March), Londonderry and Donegal (Annual General Meeting on 12 March), the Lothians (Edinburgh runs from April), Manchester (the Deansgate Hotel meeting and the General Purposes sub-committee), Metropolitan (annual meeting, motor-cycle show), Nottingham, Preston and North Lancashire (the lights by-law), Warwickshire and Birmingham, and the West Riding.
- Appendix I: the balance sheet at 31 December 1901 with its Dr and Cr columns, the auditor's certificate by Wm. F. Allvey (31 January 1902), the Life Membership and Reserve Funds, and totals of £21,049 8s. 11d.
- The candidates for election to membership, listed by county and country, with Articles 6 and 7 on the application procedure, the subscription of five shillings and the notice that forms must reach the Secretary by the 15th of the month.
- Article 8 and the resolutions of February 1888 fixing the Life Membership composition at £5 5s., with the rules on the Life Membership Capital Account and the candidates H. T. Gripper and H. S. F. Jebb.