CTC Gazette, Vol 1912, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The Secretary presents the Council's annual report for 1911, covering membership figures, legal cases, advocacy outcomes, and the Club's financial position as another year's work is reviewed.
- An update on the Road Book series, with notes on the forthcoming revision of volumes and an appeal to members to submit corrections and updates to the existing guides.
- Notice of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting with full agenda including the contested resolutions and details of how members may submit proxies.
- The audited accounts for 1911, covering income from subscriptions, insurance commissions, handbook sales, and the expenditure on legal cases, publications, and staff.
- By Wallace E. Riche: a special Roads Improvement Association inspection compares how London's tarred, macadam and wood-block road surfaces held up under hoar frost, plus a round-up of Road Board-funded improvement schemes the Association is pursuing in Surrey (the Croydon relief road), Leicestershire (the Uppingham and Wansford corner) and Lancashire (Rochdale's Brick Mill Brow).
- By Fred Horsfield: notes on managing a Primus stove and choosing between 'silent' and 'roarer' burners, an illustrated cycle laden with camping kit, and T. H. Holding's tips on powdered milk for touring and a new petrol camping lamp from the Brillig Light Company.
- By George Hogg: a cycle tour of Algeria that begins with a collier's passage from the Tyne to Oran, then rides via Tlemcen, Algiers and the Kabyle country to Constantine (with a run-in with two savage dogs at La Robla), before returning home via Marseilles, Paris and Belgium.
- By C. Edwardes: a cycling holiday based at farmhouses in Pateley Bridge and Middlesmoor, touring Nidderdale's steep roads to Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Wharfedale, Bolton Abbey and Masham, and noting Bradford's reservoir works at Angram and Gowthwaite.
- Concluding a two-part account (continued from a previous issue): the ride over the Puerto de Pajares from the Asturias into León province, with a night at Pajares' posada and the tour's end amid León's Gothic cathedral.
- Notes for CTC motor-cyclists on new machines, touring experiences, and Club insurance arrangements for petrol-powered members.
- By a correspondent signing as 'No. 5340': a cheerful counterpoint to the Editor's snowbound ride, describing a 120-mile winter motor-cycle run from Thetford to Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft and back without refuelling, plus detailed cold-weather clothing advice (Burberry gabardine, silk oilskins, a Balaclava helmet).