CTC Gazette, Vol 1912, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The Secretary reports a strong response to the December renewal notices, previews the approaching touring season and forthcoming Road Books, and notes the R.I.A.'s campaign against London tramway congestion and Lt.-Col. C. H. L. Baskerville's appointment to the Executive Committee of the 1913 International Road Congress.
- The Editor reflects on running both a pedal tandem and a small 'Moto Velo' motor-bicycle side by side, then recounts a gruelling six-hour struggle to get the stalled machine home through a blinding snowstorm on the flank of Skiddaw.
- Fred Horsfield warns campers about the fire risk of methylated spirit and benzine near a lit stove, recalling the Delhi Investiture tent fires and a mishap in which his wife's skirt caught alight at Antwerp, and reviews new Primus stoves and saddle fittings shown at the Olympia Show.
- An account of a party setting out from Liverpool's Landing Stage at 11.5 p.m. loaded with waterproofs, a spirit kettle and a Thermos flask for an all-night ride, opening with the boisterous Saturday-night scene on the quay, including an impromptu prize-fight.
- O. H. Leeney continues his Spanish cycling narrative from Galicia into the Asturias, touring Grado and Oviedo -- its cathedral, Camara Santa and the ancient churches of Naranco -- before striking south across the Asturian mountains toward Leon and Castile.
- A. J. Heighway's touring narrative reaches its Scotland instalment, describing circular rides out of Edinburgh through the Borders by way of Soutra Hill, Lauder, Kelso and the gipsy town of Yetholm.
- Douglas Leechman compares the 1912 motor-bicycle ranges of American and British manufacturers, noting the American lag in adopting mechanically-operated inlet valves and magneto ignition already standard in Britain.
- Writing as "Horizontal," a motor-cyclist describes a solitary September tour on a two-speed Douglas from Southport across the North of Yorkshire, after a last-minute cancellation left him without a companion.