May 1902
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CTC Gazette (May 1902). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/ctc-gazette/vol1902-05/
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Articles in this issue
- Confirmation at the special general meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 11 April of the Nottingham resolution admitting second and later family members at a reduced 3s. subscription, the Tyneside tube railway between North and South Shields and the petitions against it, and East Stirlingshire County Council's cycle-tax proposal.
- Charles Steele on a webbing strap kept in the waistcoat pocket as a repair for cover gashes, on re-enamelling a machine with a glove and enamel, and on a member's query about where to buy rubber blocks for Bowden rim brakes (Horton Bros., Flixton).
- M. F. on Tunbridge Wells as a cycling centre: the Pantiles and the Common, the run through Frant, Mark's Cross and Argos Hill to Mayfield, Bidborough, Southborough, Rumbers Hill, Broadwater Forest and Ashdown Forest, and the five miles to Tonbridge and the Medway.
- Constance Everett-Green on the Easter weather, on the mackintosh cape as a rain protection for the lady cyclist, on the 'Cyclistic Chaff' of April, and on whether the road rule of keeping to the left should be altered to keep to the right as abroad.
- W. Rees Jeffreys on the Roads Improvement Association: Mr Scott-Montagu's notice in the House of Commons for a separate road authority, the R.I.A. committee on a rule of the road for pedestrians, district associations' 33 replies from members of Parliament for a public inquiry, and the list of roads the association wants surveyed.
- W. Rees Jeffreys on the motor-bicycle hill-climbing trials at the Crystal Palace on 5 April, held by a joint committee of the C.T.C. Motor Cycle Section and the Automobile Club: the wet day, the eleven machines that tried the 800-yard hill, the table of average times and petrol used, and the view that the motor bicycle is a useful machine.
- F. T. Bidlake on Mr Sharp's air-spring frame with its rubber-mitten joints, and on a Humber frame of the Wolframinium aluminium alloy, weighing about 26½ lb. Continues on page 10 with notes on the S.F., L.K., Hes-Col and C.L.C. tyre-repair bands and on the Crystal Palace motor-cycle awards criticised by Mr Pennell.
- Lieut.-Col. Henry Wilson replies to Mr Leeds's 'Chemico-Cycling Jottings' in the April number: how much a man drinks is a matter of custom rather than work or heat, and he has for over forty years drunk only at meal-times, having first learnt on his walks to pass a roadside spring without drinking; he argues from the small daily waste of the body that little fluid is needed.
- Douglas Leechman's Chapter II on motor bicycles he has tried: chiefly the American Mitchell (3 h.p. by bore and stroke but rated at 1¾, belt drive over a jockey pulley, mushroom mixing valve with no throttle, timing and exhaust-valve levers, coaster hub, 108 lb), then W. H. Kitto's similar machine and the Clément-Garrard, with its small high-speed motor and its petrol and oil tank.
- Archibald Sharp on saddles (Brooks B 10, Lamplugh's B.E.L. 253), the Dursley-Pedersen at under 27 lb, the Centaur and Perfect featherweights, and the Hub and Garrard two-speed gears, with his view that a gear-case is worth its extra two pounds on a light machine.
- The special general meeting at the County Hotel, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on 11 April, under the chairman W. Kendall Burnett, which confirmed the Nottingham resolution of 14 March adding a proviso to Article 18 (which already gave members the right to uniform, badge and the Club's publications) so that a member may forgo the publications for a reduced subscription, fixed at 3s. for family members; the chairman's remarks on the unattached cyclist, a word on the Tube Bill, and J. T. Masser's point that the Club welcomes motor cyclists.
- Letters over pages 17 to 20 on: Raleigh liquid-brazed joints and the Hub two-speed gear; W. E. Heys and the Birtwisle hydraulic jointing; the Crystal Palace motor-bicycle trials and Mr Pennell's complaints; cycling in the Alps; the Dursley-Pedersen bicycle (William Ells); a Coronation camp near Portsmouth for the naval review; long cranks; Bowden brakes; the Paradox gear; and the constitution of the Council.
- Members' notices seeking companions for tours at home and abroad, among them the Tyrol and Venice, the Dolomites, the Swiss and Italian lakes, Normandy and Brittany, the Pyrenees, the Ardennes and the Rhine, each with its pace, expenses and the companion wanted.
- Short replies to members on machines and parts: the Sunbeam and Clipper Reflex tyres, gaiters, the Collier two-speed gear in the bottom bracket, the Rover Meteor and the Triumph, the Beeston Humber against a Berlin member's choice, a Mansell-Jones spring frame not yet ridden by the paper, and the rule on Handbook black lists.
- The monthly Council meeting of 12 April at Newcastle-on-Tyne under W. Kendall Burnett: resolutions 70 to 85, among them Lieut.-Col. Henry Wilson's appointment as Representative Councillor for Kent, the discharge of the Hotel Arrangements Committee and the Honorary Life Membership of named members; and the committee reports on finance (danger boards, £50 to the R.I.A.), rights and privileges (the Leigh case and the Broughty Ferry by-laws), the Map and Road Book, the R.I.A. C.T.C. Section and the Hotels Committee.
- The Chief Consul for Devon, S. G. Buchanan-Wollaston, asks for Consuls at Bovey Tracey, Lynton and Lynmouth, Moretonhampstead, Ottery St Mary and Teignmouth.
- Reports and runs from the district associations: Glasgow (office-bearers and a preliminary run), Leicestershire (the Oadby and Smockington hills, a caution board, the M.P.s' replies), Liverpool (runs and railway information), the Lothians (caution boards, the Joppa fixture and the May runs), Manchester (the Parks Committee, clause 25 of the Corporation Bill, Bramhall Lane and Moss Lane roads), Northumberland and Durham (the Shields tube bill and the petition), Nottingham (May runs), Preston and North Lancashire (a danger board for Bourne Brow), Warwickshire and Birmingham (run cards and a new treasurer) and Yorkshire (West Riding) (a general meeting, the Doncaster run).
- The Club's standing notices: the pamphlet 'The C.T.C. At Home and Abroad' sent gratis to canvass; the rights and privileges committee and the district association secretaries; the Touring Bureau and reference library; the British and Irish Road Book volumes and prices; the revised Bartholomew maps and the Companion to the Road Book; and on page 27 the Handbooks, the Year Book and Diary, the Foreign Handbook, the Continental Road Book, the Badge, reciprocal arrangements with foreign clubs, organised tours, steamship concessions, name-plates, customs and club costumes.
- The candidates for membership proposed this month, listed by county from Bedfordshire to Yorkshire, then by Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and by foreign countries (France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the United States), with the Articles on election and the notice on the 15th deadline.
- Short notes: a correspondent's point about an Iron Age article on lever and spur-geared bicycles, the estate of the late John Kemp Starley, the Vicar of Long Compton's Sunday services and room for machines, the County Gentleman's road page by Rees Jeffreys, the Cork Exhibition hotel agreements, a Bradford Argus misconception about the C.T.C. and motor cyclists, The Cyclist's handy guide, £75 damages for a cyclist knocked down by a Brighton coach, and the Club's position on motorists.