April 1912

Articles in this issue

• Notes by the Secretary (opens in a new tab)

  The Secretary reports that a Scottish member's motor-cyclist was successfully defended in Edinburgh Sheriff Court against a lorry-boy's £100 damages claim, summarises the Annual General Meeting's surplus accounts and new alternative Card Certificate of Membership, and quotes the Law Times on the need for fresh legislation on animals straying onto highways.
• Editorial Ideas (opens in a new tab)

  The Editor weighs the impact of the national coal strike on the cycle trade and argues that motor-cycling's rise has not diminished the pedal bicycle's enduring popularity, with many well-to-do motorists proud to alternate the two.
• The Annual General Meeting (opens in a new tab)

  A full report of the Club's thirty-fourth Annual General Meeting, held at the Royal Society of Arts on 8th March 1912 under chairman W. Kendall Burnett, covering the Annual Report and the Accounts, which showed a surplus, before the eighty to ninety members present.
• Camping Topics (opens in a new tab)

  Fred Horsfield previews the Easter camp at Cherry Tree Farm, Ley Hill, Chesham, with practical advice on provisioning ahead and sending blankets on by rail to beat the chilly spring nights.
• R.I.A. Notes (opens in a new tab)

  Wallace E. Riche reports the Roads Improvement Association's opposition to L.C.C. tramway trailer-cars, its representations on a new Western Approach Road to London, and a Birmingham deputation's success in easing tramway-junction congestion.
• The Novice in Normandy and Brittany (opens in a new tab)

  R. M. Morrison recounts his and seventeen-year-old Nevill's first cross-Channel cycling tour on ten pounds apiece, made harder in its early days by a hundred-and-sixty-pound trailer they tried to tow before abandoning it partway through Normandy.
• Some Runs with the H.C.A.S. (opens in a new tab)

  An account of Home Counties Archaeological Society club runs out of Slough along the Thames by Cliveden and Cookham, seeking out lesser-known antiquarian sites within day-trip range of London.
• An Anglo-Scottish Tour (opens in a new tab)

  A long-distance touring narrative starting from Crystal Palace through Essex and Suffolk -- Colchester's castle, Constable country around Dedham, Ipswich, Norwich and Peterborough -- heading north toward Scotland.
• An Easter Holiday in the Midi (opens in a new tab)

  A nine-day, roughly 460-mile tour of the southern Cévennes and Eastern Pyrenees out of Carcassonne, climbing repeatedly between 2,000 and 4,000 feet through La Montagne Noire past the Pic de Nore.
• Motor-Cycle Notes (opens in a new tab)

  Douglas Leechman describes notable motor-cycle inventions introduced since the Olympia Show, including A. Low's multum-in-parvo engine and cup ignition plug.