September 1902
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Articles in this issue
- The failure to secure a locus standi before the Parliamentary committees on the North and South Shields Electric Railway Bill, which the Court of Referees refused because the Club was neither a chamber of commerce nor an association of traders, and the Commons amendment carried 219 to 48; Mr Jeffreys' letter of 29 July and the Times report of Mr Parker Smith's evidence on the standing orders; the Licensing Act moving the Brewster Sessions to February and the Home Office refusing to compel innkeepers to supply non-alcoholic refreshment; the Perth Sheriff's dismissal of the hedge-clippings summons against Thomas Maclellan, and the tramway claim of £17 finally paid; the Cunliffe complaint of hotel overcharges and the Club's denial; the railway conference postponed to October; and the Half-Yearly General Meeting on 10 October, to discuss the reorganisation of the Council.
- Douglas Leechman on comfortable saddles: the pneumatic saddle of Mr Lycett of Birmingham, and the Harrington saddle with its V-set hard-drawn steel wire springs, whose ends are hinged in pockets so no wire bends at an angle; the aluminium platform under the clip, the Lamplugh Brothers anatomical top he rides, and the slotted two-arm clamp that locks the saddle both angularly and longitudinally.
- Haydon Perry's Route 290, Chester to Bangor by Rhuddlan, continued: Abergele and the 1868 Irish mail fire at Llandulas in which 33 died in the burning Chester coaches; Gwrych Castle and the inscriptions at the Cefn-Ogo pass; Yr Ogof and Cefn-yr-ogof; the Richard II inscription; then Llysfaen, Old Colwyn, Mochdre and Conway.
- F. L. Jates on a tour of the western Scottish lakes, made by train to Glasgow the previous August with a wife and a friend, carrying bags of one woollen change; the route from Dunoon by Loch Eck and Loch Fyne, the ferry across to Inveraray, Kilmartin, Loch Melfort, Oban, Loch Awe, Ardlui and Inversnaid, to the Stronachlachar Hotel on Loch Katrine, a C.T.C. house recommended; the Trossachs, Callander, Stirling, Edinburgh (the Clarendon preferred to the Carlton and Imperial), and a fortnight at The Bank, Wythburn, on Thirlmere; with hotel-contract disputes and the hotel to avoid at Loch Awe.
- The Club's campaign against the North and South Shields Electric Railway Bill: its attempt to cut the 6d cycle fare to 2d and make the service compulsory; the petitions refused a hearing in the Lords and the Commons; the statement to MPs and the promoters' reply (Watson, Dendy and Burton, 18 July 1902) that cycles would stretch the six-minute service to nine or ten minutes; the ferries at 1d a bicycle; the evening debate on Mr Plummer's clause for six bicycles a train at 3d, with the speeches of Atherley Jones, Rosson, Parker Smith, Bryce, Mr Shaw and John Wilson; the division on pp.11 and 12, Ayes 219 and Noes 48, its tellers, and the full division list.
- Robert C. Clay, with photographs by Geo. Heys-Jones, on a tour through the French Pyrenees from Bayonne, with its Basque and bull-fight life and a day to Biarritz; by Orthez and Pau (the Henri IV birthplace) into the mountains; the valley and pass rides from Pau to Eaux Chaudes and Eaux Bonnes, the Col d'Aubisque (5,600 ft, walked, the writer and a friend crossing it after dark), Arrens, Argelés, Lourdes, Cauterets and Pierrefitte; then Luz, the Col du Tourmalet (about 14 miles from Luz, mostly walked, with the flood-wrecked road between Luz and Barèges hauled over by a mule track), Sainte-Marie, Bagnères de Bigorre, St Gaudens and the ride to Toulouse.
- Constance Everett-Green's page: additions to the list of open-air bathing places for ladies (Shepperton, Watford, Henley-on-Thames, Canterbury); sea air and sand harming machines; lace ties and collars washed en route and a spare silk shirt in the luggage; short coats and a strap to fasten them to the head-tube; access to Hyde Park and the state of Constitution Hill and the Mall; thin open-sided tyres giving vibration; and Mrs Dunn's umbrella clip from Vickery's, Regent Street.
- C. A. Stephenson on the route from Bala to Dolgelly by Dinas Mawddwy and Bwlch Oerddrws, avoiding the usual Drwsynant road: past Bala Lake, Llannwchllyn and under the Great Western Railway, up the narrow road to the open summit of Bwlch-y-Groes, the descent to Llanymawddwy and Dinas Mawddwy (with the side road to Lake Vyrnwy), the steep climb up the Wylecop to the walk up Bwlch Oerddrws, and the descent past the Cross Foxes to Dolgelly.
- Lieut.-Col. Henry Wilson on Miss Everett-Green's list of places where women can learn to swim: most drownings come from false ideas; a man drowned in an inch of water; the skirt does not drag a swimmer down, wet clothes buoy her up; his own bet, swimming twenty minutes fully dressed in twelve feet of water at Cambridge; swimming, once learnt, is not forgotten; and the cyclist's heart and lungs as an advantage in the water, ending in praise of Miss Everett-Green (continued to p.21).
- Letters from members, pp.21-24: Herefordshire road names 'bank' and 'pitch'; waterproofs and overalls; A. C. Davison, A.M.I.C.E., on lamps and the Holophote; cyder as an alcoholic drink, with the Editor's reply; B.A.'s revolutions-per-minute method for speed, and Charles Wilcockson's complaint that the printer garbled his gear fractions; long cranks (Kuklos, F. H., G. Lacy Hillier on the 'pleasure cyclist'); a cheap Swiss tour from Weggis and Gersau to Goschenen; loose metal on the Klausen Pass; Charles Harper's Cycle Rides Round London; an Archaeological Cycling Club ride; Bowden brakes (two letters against); a New Departure coaster hub on a tandem; Moel Famau; a two-speed gear for a tricycle; tram precedence; and the Netherlands Steamboat Company on cycles on Rhine steamers.
- Minutes of the meeting at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, on 2 August 1902: the Argyll Chief Consul's resignation; the Cunliffe case referred back to the Rights and Privileges Committee with full power to act; W. Rees Jeffreys as the Club's representative at the I.A.T. Congress; Sutcliffe, Heslop and Masser to confer with the Cycle Engineers' Institute on certifying repairers; a conversazione referred to the Metropolitan District; maps for Chief Consuls; and a Council of about 60 with 20 United Kingdom divisions from 1 January 1903, with motions for the General Meeting. The Rights and Privileges report (p.26) covers a trailer-storage charge, railway and Cressage Bridge tolls, the Licensing Bill and Mr Broadhurst, hotel tyre and railway damage claims, and hedge-cutting and road complaints in Ongar, Perthshire and Theobalds Park. Next meeting Belfast, 13 September.
- Reports of the district associations, pp.27-28: Antrim and Down (Belfast; George Smith's resignation as Hon. Secretary, C. Walpole Marsh elected, the Antrim Arms Hotel, Glenarm, proposed for the contract list, University Road); Glasgow (crushed granite for street sanding, a Lanark run on 16 August, no July run); Leicestershire (caution and danger boards at East Farndon, Newtown Linford, Barrow-upon-Soar and Thurnby, and the September runs); the Lothians (the September runs and the Dalkeith social on 11 October); Manchester (railway tour programmes, the Altrincham through tickets, the Salford cab stand, the Middleton lights, a Prestwich repairer, and the Alderley Edge tea); Nottinghamshire (the N.C.U. board at Woodborough Hill, the Dovedale run replaced by Normanton-on-Soar, and the September runs); and, last, Warwickshire and Birmingham (Mr Cliff elected Hon. Secretary, the Bridgnorth and Leamington runs, the Baddesley Clinton and Earlswood runs, and the next committee at Leamington).
- Notice of the Half-Yearly General Meeting, at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday 10 October 1902 at 8 p.m., with notices of motion to reach the Secretary by 15 September; signed E. R. Shipton, Secretary, dated 1 September 1902.
- Four members seek companions: a 30-year-old gentleman for a September tour in England; a lady in the W.C. district for Saturday runs out of London; a London member for a Loire Valley tour from 19 September; and a Cardiff member for the Channel Islands and Lower Normandy, starting in early September.
- The Editor's answers, on p.28: the order of free-wheel clutches, tyres and tricycles to choose, a lamp and a small firm's machines recommended; a Sunbeam still recommended, with 7 in. cranks and 70 gear for a tall man; a refitted Smith's band; free pedals for a lady on a tricycle; Fleuss tyres not relevant to open-sided ones; a first-grade machine good for 20,000 miles; a pedal rim brake too harsh for a light machine; the Calcium Searchlight lamp, which needs daily retrimming; and the Editor's explanation to a Birmingham reader that Mr Bidlake's advice favoured the small repairer who does the work himself over the show-room repairer.
- Standing information for members (pp.29-30): a pamphlet recruiting members, which lists the Club's handbooks, road books and maps; the Rights and Privileges Committee and the list of district associations with their Hon. Secretaries; the Touring Bureau and its reference library; the British and Irish Road Book volumes and their prices; the Bartholomew map revision in collaboration with the Club; the first volume of the Companion to the Road Book; the Handbook and Farmhouse list, the Year Book and Diary, and the Foreign Handbook (2s); the Customs tickets (photograph and deposit) for Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States; reciprocal arrangements with foreign clubs; the Continental Road Book volumes and itineraries; the Badge; name-plates at 2s; steamship concessions (General Steam, New Palace, Adria); and the Club costume catalogue.
- The list of candidates for membership, pp.31-36, with the terms of membership at its head (5s a year, a 1s entrance fee, commutation and family rates, and the election procedure), arranged by English county, then Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and finally the colonies and foreign countries, including the United States.