CTC Gazette, Vol 1910, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The editor highlights the important resolutions on entrance fees and council terms to be debated at the October general meetings, and responds to a motor-cycling journal's question about why the CTC does not do more to attract motor-cyclists.
- Three recent legal cases in which the Club recovered damages for members struck by motor vehicles in London and Birmingham, demonstrating the practical value of CTC membership.
- An editorial appeal for members to recruit their family members at the reduced rate, noting a disappointing decline in family membership compared with the growth in full memberships.
- Announcement of the forthcoming Olympia Motor Exhibition and the Stanley cycle show, with details of dates and the Club's plan to obtain half-price admission tickets for members.
- Four Birmingham CTC members, Robin, Bertie, Sammy, and the narrator, set out at dawn on Good Friday on a 340-mile tour to the Wash, riding via Coventry, Market Harborough, and Stamford, lodging overnight with a vicar friend, and visiting Ely and Peterborough Cathedrals.
- F. Freeman rides from Lichfield Cathedral through Tong, with its carved outdoor pulpit and Little Nell associations, and Shiffnal to climb the Wrekin, ending at Shrewsbury and its two Severn bridges.
- M. Adeline Cooke traces Hampshire's coastline by bicycle from Bournemouth through Christchurch, Lymington, and Beaulieu Abbey to Southampton, Netley Abbey, and the naval port of Portsmouth, with its memories of Nelson's Victory.
- "A Potterer" describes a solo weekend ride from Reading through the Berkshire Downs to Wantage, on to Cirencester and the Cotswold villages of Bibury and Burford, and back via Abingdon and the Chilterns to Henley-on-Thames.
- An account of the Midland District Association's annual night ride, describing the experience of cycling through the darkness in a large group and the special character of a moonlit road.
- J. Percival Spittall travels by canal steamer from Gothenburg to Stockholm past the Trollhattan Falls, then walks and drives south through Odeshog and Jonkoping to Helsingborg, crossing to Denmark and on to Copenhagen.
- H. T. B. Drew continues his touring account (from the previous instalment) through Winfield Manor, once the prison of Mary Queen of Scots, and Chatsworth and Sherwood Forest, riding north via Sheffield, Wakefield, Leeds, and York to Durham.
- G. A. Mackay describes touring Shetland by motor-cycle, reached by steamer from Aberdeen via Orkney, praising a lightweight "Douglas" twin for coping with the island's many gates and hills around Lerwick.
- An account of a camping tour by bicycle through northern Belgium and France, describing the campsites used, the roads, and the practical experience of lightweight cycle camping on the Continent.