August 1902
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Articles in this issue
- Sets out the C.T.C.'s part in the Licensing Bill, printing E. R. Shipton's letter of 30 June 1902 asking the Home Secretary for a clause obliging licensed houses to supply non-alcoholic refreshment to travellers, and C. Ritchie's reply of 15 July refusing it (answered for the Department by Charles S. Murdoch). It notes Mr. Broadhurst's clause, rejected 18 to 8 in Standing Committee and defeated by 19 in the House, the plan to bring it forward as a Private Member's Bill, and Colonel Irwin's Roscommon bench resolution; it then reports the railway companies' conference at the Board of Trade and the continuing correspondence on the decline in membership.
- By F. T. Bidlake, on roadside tyre troubles: a patch that would not hold over a moulded inscription in the air tube, a flint spicule that pierced a second tube, a solution tin dried up in the pouch, and a repair at a roadside emporium. He then turns to brakes, a foot-acted brake that will not lock the wheel and a rim brake a stone had kinked, the Humber compound brake with its lever and twister, and a Bowden cord that stuck until its casing was punctured and oiled.
- By W. Rees Jeffreys, under the sub-head Action of the R.I.A.: the Roads Improvement Association's opposition to London United Tramways schemes over Hammersmith Bridge to Richmond by Barnes and Mortlake and at Wimbledon and Merton. It records the evidence of Mr. Scott Montagu and Lieut.-Col. Crompton, the Committee's refusal of the Hammersmith Broadway line over the bridge but sanction of the other lines, and Scott Montagu's motion against the third reading, withdrawn after an interview with the promoters.
- By Constance Everett-Green, on open-air swimming baths for ladies: Speen near Newbury, Beckenham and Shere in Surrey, with their days, hours and fees, and the carrying of a wet bathing dress in a cycle bag. She asks readers for baths within reach of the London suburbs, and then argues that athletics and games train women to keep their heads in an emergency and that a tour's bags and fittings should be tested before setting out.
- Concluding IV of Grenville A. J. Cole's series, on the road from Salzburg to Trieste over the Radstadter Tauern, the Katschberg and the Predil. It covers the Lueg Pass, Werfen, the Steg, Unter Tauern (1,004 metres), the Radstadter Tauern (1,738 metres) above Tweng and the Mur, St Michael and the Katschberg (1,641 metres), down to Villach and up the Gail valley to Tarvis; the Predil (3,810 ft) by Raibl, Tolmino, Canale, Gorizia and Monfalcone to Trieste, 113 miles from Villach; and the onward choice at Tarvis of Pontebba and Venetia, Laibach and Agram, or Trieste and the Dalmatian isles.
- By T. H. Holding, on the Association's third united camp, the Coronation Review camp at Hillhead on the Solent: thirty campers, eight of them married ladies, in two sections, Victoria Terrace for the ladies and Bachelors' Avenue for the men. It records the long rides in (the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Kingdon from Exeter, Mr. and Mrs. Horsfield over 90 miles in a day), the trip to Gosport and Porchester Castle to inspect the Victoria, a ride to Warsash and Netley Abbey, and the Sunday service conducted by the President, Mr. T. H. Holding, and the Rev. Mr. Kingdon.
- Chapter V, by Douglas Leechman: a trial of the Humber chain-driven motor-bicycle (2 h.p. at 1,800 r.p.m.), describing its frame, surface carburettor, trembler-coil ignition cut out by the brake lever, compression release, silencer, and friction clutch with double chain drive and a pawl on the left crank for starting; 51 in. wheel base, 24 in. frame, 2 in. Dunlops, 121 lbs. He praises its steering, speed and hill-climbing (Stoneleigh Hill without pedalling) and faults the hard re-start after a stop, the lack of a throttle, the single brake on the machine tried, back-firing with the ignition advanced and the chain noise, calling it the germ of a very fine machine.
- By T. H. Holding, answering questions on fly-sheets and proofing. He holds that for a one-man kit the 5 ft 9 in A-model cycle tent (about 2 lb) is best without a fly-sheet, which needs 11/2 yards of material and six guys and pegs and would double the bulk, though he favours one where two men share a kit; campers at the Solent camp, where seventeen tents stood, reported the tents comfortable and dry as they are. He gives directions for making a fly-sheet from 40 in. material (bound edges, eyelets, a spare 9 in. over the door), rejects a half fly-sheet sewn along the middle or winged flies on the A tent, and describes carrying-bags (the shelf carrier, the angle frame-bag, the handle-bar mackintosh roll, his own saddle-bag, the Turner carrier and a bearing-strap bag). He ends with his tests of a proofing, quoting the inventor's account of Martin's Hydrofuge (xylene in benzole, about 2d. a square yard).
- By W. Rees Jeffreys, the Roads Improvement Association's report: the Parliamentary movement and the call for a public inquiry into highway administration, with members asked to report on the first ten or fifteen miles of roads from their towns; the funds, with £50 from the Automobile Club, £71 from the C.T.C. Council (£50 ordinary and 20 guineas to the special movement) and £50 from J. R. Baillie. It also covers the condition of Constitution Hill, where the Treasury must sanction wood paving, and how slippery roads and obstructions in London cause street accidents, including Mr. Chamberlain's.
- By Haydon Perry, Vol. II, Route 290, Chester to Bangor (via Rhuddlan). It opens on Welsh place-name spellings and the errors of maps and milestones, then runs by Saltney and Broughton Church and through Hawarden (the Gladstone fountain, Ewloe, Northop, Halkin Castle), Holywell, Lloc and Newmarket (the Cop and its cairn, said to cover Boadicea), Ochr Voel and Rhuddlan, with a long history of its castle, Edward I's Parliament and the Statute of Rhuddlan, the Abbey, the Spital and Heber's marriage, the Falls of Dysarth, and the flat road on to the Club's quarters at Abergele, where this part ends.
- A postscript by A. W. Rumney to C. Edwards's paper on the Staffordshire Highlands: a ride over Axe Edge to Flash, and the search for the church that the local guide calls Ludchurch, reached by a green path and a locked gate, through a rock fissure and a dark passage into the nave, where a wooden image hangs high on the wall. The tradition of Robin Hood and Little John is noted, and the descent west by a path to Dane Bridge.
- The letters department. On the decline in membership: R. Mansell-Jones (10,956) defends the editor against Frank Bowden's complaint, argues for vertically resilient frames against the Raleigh cross frame, and blames the South African war; No. 19 (Athenaeum Club) thinks the name Cyclists' Touring Club misleads ordinary riders; S. I. England (5372, Belfast) urges more home tours, social runs through the District Associations and cycle insurance. Others: Dunlop tyres (No. 14,422) and Clipper tyres (No. 4232, A. F. P. 7096), with an inquiry on open-sided Fleuss tyres (A. P. 13,808); acetylene lamps and Muller's Searchlight (Geo. D. Lang, 9299); cycle 'rickshas (W. H. Stonier, 10,939; B. A. Snell, 11,231); touring in Germany (Rev. H. L. Jackson, 6119); Rhine steamers and the Black Forest (No. 17,978); the rule of the road (LEX, 1394); the Licensing Bill (ADDLED); motor bicycles (Douglas Leechman, 29,228); and the Club colours (No. 11,982).
- A department of short replies to members: a Crabbe front-wheel rim brake with a pull-up lever, Garlio cleaning cloths, Stone's cable brake, a defect that cannot be judged without seeing the machine, Smith's compressed rubber bands on outer covers (which slow the tyre), the Hygienic Cushion frame (about 35 lbs) returned to its makers, a tricycle with 6.5 in. cranks and 56 gear of about 36 lbs for a lady (Humber or Quadrant), the railway companies' treatment of cyclists, increased brake leverage, the Hub and Garrard two-speed gears, and the fatigue of metal in a four-year-old machine.
- The minutes of the monthly Council meeting at the Hydropathic Establishment, Moffat, on 12 July 1902 under W. Kendall Burnett: the Chief Consul appointments for Anglesey (Frederick S. Schwabe), Dublin and Kildare (H. St C. Spencer) and Kilkenny and Tipperary (E. W. Kelly), the Map and Road Book joint committee's report, and comments on the agenda from absent councillors. The Rights and Privileges report covers loitering London omnibuses, tyres cut at the Killearn Hotel, the Licensing Bill amendment defeated by 19, the North and South Shields Railway Bill, and the Sheffield lights by-law. The Roads Improvement Association report covers Gloucestershire direction-posts, the Starley memorial, 86 M.P.s' support, and the C.T.C. Committee's advice on the proposed £25 yearly grant to the Irish association: not all the 1897 conditions suitable, £15 to the Ulster centre and £10 to Cork.
- Reports of the local committees, each signed by its hon. secretary: Glasgow (accounts and the cycle and train runs sub-committee), Leicestershire (signposts, runs for August with teas at the Hind and Peacock Hotels), Liverpool (a danger board at Pimbo Lane judged unnecessary, tar on the streets, Ullet Road gullies, furious riding in Newsham Drive, broken glass, run to Billinge), the Lothians (runs), and Manchester (Stockport bookings for Tours 32 and 44, the Club map, danger-boards, a Salford cab stand), continuing on p.25 with Preston and North Lancashire (a flints complaint dropped, the Garstang caution-board), Nottinghamshire (Woodborough Hill board, August runs), Warwickshire and Birmingham (the hon. secretary's resignation, no August runs) and Yorkshire West Riding (the last run, to Boston Spa on 30 August).
- Members' notices seeking companions, each with route and dates: a Norway tour in the second half of August, a week in the eastern or western counties from 9 August, a lady's Derbyshire trip in early August, St Malo to the Pyrenees by motor bicycle in late September, a fortnight in England or Wales in September, Dieppe, Bayeux, Cherbourg and Granville from about 16-23 August, a 17-day Pyrenees tour via Liverpool and Bordeaux, a September Rhine Valley tour from Hanover, a month by Hamburg, Copenhagen and the Norwegian fjords from about 9 August, two weeks in the West of England (Oxford, Gloucester, Monmouth), Switzerland by the Albula and Stelvio passes from 18 or 25 August, and a ladies' and gentlemen's Loire valley tour from 21 August.
- Standing notices to members: the C.T.C. At Home and Abroad pamphlet, free on application, for canvassing members and prospective candidates; the Rights and Privileges arrangements with the district associations that take up members' grievances; the Touring Bureau and reference library at headquarters; the British and Irish Road Book volumes; Bartholomew's new two-mile maps of England, Wales and Scotland with the Club's revised sheets; and the Companion to the Road Book. It continues on p.27 with the British and Irish Handbook and the Farmhouse list (gratis), the Year Book and Diary (one shilling), and the Foreign Handbook.
- The list of candidates for election to the Club, with their addresses, county by county from Bedfordshire and Berkshire through Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex and on to Yorkshire, then Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. It opens with the Club's notice on subscriptions and Article 6 on election by the Council.