June 1902
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Articles in this issue
- Opens with the Cressage Bridge toll case, Smith v. Kynnersley, in which Mr Justice Wright held under 39 Geo. III that a bicycle is not a 'sledge, drag, or such like carriage', so the 6d. toll was not authorised; then the Royal Parks, where the restrictions on cyclists are to be removed next month, and the North and South Shields tube railway Bill, whose petitioners were refused a locus standi by the Court of Referees.
- A legal article on the rights and liabilities of innkeepers and cyclists as travellers: what makes a house an inn (Bacon, Thompson v. Lacy, Lamond v. Richard), the innkeeper's duty to receive a guest, when a cyclist counts as a guest, and liability for goods, including the bicycle, under the Innkeepers' Liability Act 1863, limited to £30.
- Reviews R. J. Mecredy's handbook The Motor-Bicycle (Dublin, 1s.), which covers the Otto cycle, the carburettor, and the driving and care of the machine, with a list of articles for the tourist to carry.
- Grenville A. J. Cole's illustrated serial on Alpine passes. Part I takes the Lautaret from Grenoble up the Romanche gorge past La Grave and the Col du Lautaret to Briançon and the Durance; Part II takes the Megève in Haute-Savoie, with a note on the Tête-Noire, from Flumet and St.-Gervais to Chamonix, the Forclaz and Trient. Plates on p.7.
- F. T. Bidlake on drinking and energy: false thirst from motor-car dust, a rinse rather than a drink, and the cyclist's daily stock of energy, followed by a defence of change-speed gears; closes with the Automobile Club's Dashwood Hill Climb of 10 May, where the Humber ridden by Yates was fastest, and the Bexhill tourist-section trial.
- C. R. Beaumont's open letter to the Editor on lamps and oils: modern lamps are faulty in ventilation and burner, with a good wick (hollow or double woven, of dry absorbent cotton) and the choice of oil; his best mixture is one part Stettin colza, one cocoanut and two mineral colza (300 degrees oil), with thinned vaseline, neatsfoot and nut oils as alternatives, and the Bell Rock lamp Messrs Miller made for him.
- Chapter III of Douglas Leechman's series on motor-bicycles: the Minerva type with its engine below the bottom bracket, the Excelsior made by Bayliss, Thomas and Co. of Coventry, and the Quadrant with its band-brake and single lever control, with notes on the carburettor, tank and handlebar controls.
- Constance Everett-Green's column after a four weeks' absence in Italy: no Italian lady cyclist to be met, the riders almost all men and given to showing off, soldiers on bicycles, motor-cars popular in military circles, the rough stone-block paving of the towns, and April the best month for cycling in Northern Italy, with February and March not too early in a favourable season (this year was late and wet).
- Archibald Sharp on Stone's cable brake, which runs a wire cable over pulley blocks to multiply the pull on the rim by five, so that its action is ideal and free of the harshness of many rim brakes.
- F. H. Leeds's second article, a reply to Lieut.-Col. Wilson on drinking: stimulants as drugs, the digestive reflex action of a drink before a meal, objection to likening the body to a steam-engine, and the kidneys, where a blood deprived of water keeps its waste products in the body; concludes that dark, scanty urine after a long hot ride means one has not drunk enough.
- The deputation of 14 May to Akers-Douglas, First Commissioner of Works, introduced by Bryce with MPs present, with E. R. Shipton and the Hon. Gilbert Coleridge for the C.T.C., S. R. Noble for the National Cyclists' Union, W. Rees Jeffreys for the Roads Improvement Association and Scott-Montagu for the Automobile Club, asking that cyclists use Hyde Park roads without the 3-to-7 exclusion, and the state of the park roads; with Esher's letter of 15 May promising the hour restriction would be lifted from 1 July, any exclusion at the height of the London season not to exceed 3 to 6 p.m.
- T. H. Holding on cycle camping, with the Association's 64 members: how to begin, choosing a camp site away from the great roads and near water and a house for eggs and milk, asking the farmer's permission, pitching the tent taut and out of the wind and leaving the ground clean; the Gipsy tent's pitching and folding follow on p.16.
- J. A. H. argues that cyclists should give their rides an object: a Saturday spin to an old church or a ruin, the geology or history of a district, the tracing of a vehicle's marks as in the game of Sherlock Holmes, and a note on B. P.'s Aids to Scouting.
- Letters to the Editor on the decline in membership (hotel discounts and the Handbook's hotel list, the 3s. member, admitting automobilists), the Bowden brake and a plea for the 'stupid' member (p.18), cross-frame resiliency and the long-crank debate (pp.19-20), liquid brazing and the Cycle Shows, the Hub two-speed gear on tandems, On Drinking, the Centaur Featherweight and Cyclophil's remarks (pp.20-21), the Quadrant motor-bicycle against Joseph Pennell (p.21), a second Hub two-speed letter and the Rev. C. E. Ranken's thanks to the Council, with a note that more letters are crowded out.
- Short answers to members on machines and fittings, among them the Quadrant chain-driven safety, the Multi-Spiral saddle, the Sunbeam and Royal Premier, a free-wheel clutch, cushion and pneumatic tyres, the Council's rejection of a cycling camp for the Naval Review, and the Primus motor for the Crystal Palace show.
- Members' advertised requests for companions for tours, among them a fortnight in France or Switzerland, North Wales, the Pyrenees, Western England, Germany, Stelvio and the Belgian Ardennes, each with the dates, expenses and a reply box at the Editor's office.
- The Council meeting at Bath on 10 May 1902 under W. Kendall Burnett: the resignation of Mr. Fox-Thomas as Chief Consul for the West Riding, the interim reports of the Finance and Rights and Privileges committees, the Map and Road Book committee on re-issuing Vol. I, two delegates to the 1902 congress of the Ligue Internationale des Associations Touristes (Burnett and Mason of Geneva), help for the Irish Roads Improvement Association, a committee on a new application form, and six members declared elected Hon. Life Members; next meeting at Edinburgh on 14 June.
- Reports of the district associations: Antrim and Down (Belfast, highway reform and the Strangford and Portaferry ferries), Glamorganshire (Bridgend, milestones and a Cardiff visit), Glasgow (its first meeting, office-bearers, club runs and granite chips), Leicestershire (June runs), Liverpool (Knowsley Park days granted by the Earl of Derby, the Rules and road repairs), Manchester (tram carriage of bicycles, hedge cuttings and Wilmslow Road), Nottinghamshire (danger boards and June runs), Northumberland and Durham (a circular to MPs on the tube railway), Warwickshire and Birmingham (the Cycle Camp for the Naval Review) and Yorkshire (West Riding) (its general meeting at Leeds, election of officers, letters to 36 MPs and the railway companies, and a run to Hardcastle Craggs).
- The standing notices of the Club across pp.26-27: the pamphlet The C.T.C. At Home and Abroad, the Rights and Privileges Committee and the list of district associations, the Touring Bureau and library, the British and Irish Road Book volumes and the Companion to the Road Book, the revised Bartholomew maps, the Handbook and Farmhouse Lodgings List, the Year Book and Diary, the Foreign Handbook, the Continental Road Book volumes, the badge, name-plates, customs, reciprocal arrangements with foreign clubs, Thomas Cook's organised tours, steamship concessions and the Club costumes.
- Applications for membership arranged by county, colony and country, from Bedfordshire and Berkshire to Hereford, and on through pp.29-32 to Ireland, Scotland, the colonies and abroad, with the rules for election under Articles 6 and 7 and the notice that forms must reach the Secretary by the 15th of the preceding month.
- The Life Membership rules and the resolutions of February 1888 (a composition of £5 5s. for future subscriptions, a separate Life Membership (Capital) Account and four permanent trustees), with the two candidates listed: W. Hockmeyer of Lowell, Mass. (joined June 1891) and Major H. A. Errington Josse of Great Grimsby (joined November 1893).