CTC Gazette, Vol 1909, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The editor expresses sharp disappointment at the paltry railway concessions granted after five months of negotiation, noting the new 9d return cycle ticket for short journeys falls far short of what cyclists in other countries enjoy.
- The Council formally registers its disappointment at the railway companies' response and instructs delegates to the NCU Joint Committee to press harder for further concessions.
- An analysis of the Chancellor's Development Bill and its proposals for road improvement funding, reassuring cyclists that the scheme is aimed at improving existing roads rather than creating new motor roads.
- Notice of the annual election of CTC councillors, with details of contested divisions and instructions for full members on how to cast their votes.
- A reflective piece on the pleasures of autumn cycling, describing the landscape in October colours and making the case for the neglected art of late-season touring.
- Notes on the celebration marking twenty-one years since pneumatic tyres became standard equipment on cycles, commemorating John Boyd Dunlop's invention.
- Further episodes from a cycling tour through Central Europe, describing the roads, border crossings, and the diverse landscapes of this touring territory.
- An account of a long-distance motor-cycle and sidecar tour from London to Wales, covering the roads, fuel stops, and the practicalities of this relatively new form of mechanised touring.
- A walking tour account following the main road from the Danish capital to Hamburg, describing the flat countryside, small towns, and the experience of travelling on foot through Scandinavia.
- By C. Edwardes: a survey of the cycling roads around Newquay, Cornwall, covering routes through Mitchell, Ladock, St Columb Major and Minor, and Bedruthan Steps, with historical notes on Sir Walter Raleigh's connection to Mitchell.
- By F. Goldby, continued from a previous issue: a cycling tour of the Rhine from Bacharach and Rudesheim to Bingen, Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfort, closing with practical advice on rail transit of bicycles, luggage, photography and hotel costs in Germany.
- By 'One of Them': a four-cyclist tour of Normandy and Brittany, from Le Havre and Caudebec-en-Caux through Falaise (birthplace of William the Conqueror), Granville, Mont St Michel, Dol and St Malo.
- By 'Lady Jane': seasonal advice for women cyclists on autumn riding, choice of lamps (oil, candle and Thompson electric), suitable tweed clothing, and avoiding side-slip on wet town streets.
- By Douglas Leechman, M.I.A.E.: technical notes on motor-cycle lubrication intervals and the relative merits of surface, spray and wick carburetters, plus a new Brown Bros adjustable wrench and French Customs rules for touring motor-cyclists.
- By H. R. Reynolds, M.A. (No. XI in the series): a turn-by-turn cycling route from Victoria Park via Hackney Marsh and Wanstead Flats to Barking, chosen to avoid the tramlines on the main Commercial Road.
- The editor's account of a 977-mile tandem tour ('A Thousand on a Tandem') from the Solway to Birmingham, Bournemouth, Sussex, London and Norwich, followed by his trials of Mr Gaunt's wind-sail 'cycloplane' against Cycling's rival report on it.
- Report on the Amateur Camping Club's Cudham camp, where twenty-nine tents were pitched in a Kentish meadow, noting a lightweight rucksack camping kit and the A.C.C.'s stand at the Glasgow Exhibition.
- By W. Rees Jeffreys of the Roads Improvement Association: on the new Road Board created by the Development Bill, plus local-improvement casework covering unrolled road metal in Cumberland and Surrey, Hastings tramway margins, the Machynlleth Road in Merionethshire, and signposting in Denbighshire.
- Readers' letters debating renaming the Club a 'Cyclists' and General Touring Club', a proposed London clubhouse, variable gears versus fixed, puncture-proofing methods, and a protest over the withdrawal of overnight steamer berths for Irish tourists.
- Minutes of the Council's September meeting in London, chaired by W. Kendall Burnett, recording resolutions on Chief Consul appointments, the stalled Spanish Customs concession, a new Gazette cover design by A. R. Quinton, and renewed disappointment at the railway companies' concessions.
- Reports from the Club's Finance, Rights and Privileges, Map and Road Book, Foreign and Colonial Touring, General Purposes and Hotels committees, including a settled claim over a member injured by a trap at Hayes and a recovered cycle gone astray at Mainz.
- An account, reprinted from the Birmingham Daily Mail, of sixty cyclists' moonlight ride organised by Messrs. Trevarthen and Coulson from Small Heath through Coventry, Kenilworth, Guy's Cliff and Warwick to Stratford-on-Avon.
- A chronicle of District Association committee meetings and autumn runs across Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leicestershire, Liverpool, Manchester, the Metropolitan sections, Northumberland and Nottingham, including a Corbridge-on-Tyne excursion to the Roman station of Corstopitum.
- An account of touring using a carrier cycle or van to transport camping equipment, describing the advantages and practical challenges of this method of travelling with more gear.