June 1912

Articles in this issue

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

  The Secretary highlights the underused 'Exchange and Mart' advertising column, announces that members can now hold more than one Dean and Dawson Authorisation Certificate at a time, and previews the Club's representation on the milestones sub-committee of the 1913 International Road Congress.
• Editorial Ideas (opens in a new tab)

  The Editor reports that Lt.-Col. C. H. L. Baskerville, the Club's delegate to the 1913 International Road Congress, has been placed on its sub-committee drafting a report on direction and distance sign-posts, and invites members with views on milestones to write to him before 24th June.
• Camping Topics (opens in a new tab)

  Fred Horsfield reports Mr. Strugnell's 35-mile hand-car walk from Chesham to Canonbury and welcomes a new permanent Amateur Camping Club site on the River Colne at Iver, while musing on friends who decline his camping invitations.
• Notes for Cycling Women (opens in a new tab)

  Mabel Richards, prompted by watching a procession of cyclists from a friend's motor-car, warns women riders against turning to look back at the sound of a horn -- a habit that has already caused at least one recorded accident -- and advises keeping calm and dressing to combat dust on main roads.
• Current Comments (opens in a new tab)

  F. T. Bidlake weighs schemes for equipping an ordinary bicycle with an occasional-use auxiliary motor, responding to a reader's letter on storing pedalling energy and to the Editor's call for a machine offering easier hill-climbing rather than higher top speed.
• R.I.A. Notes (opens in a new tab)

  Wallace E. Riche reports that H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught has become President of the Roads Improvement Association, and summarises its Annual General Meeting at Caxton House, Westminster, chaired by Col. R. E. Crompton, at which the report and accounts were adopted.
• Rides round Aberystwyth (opens in a new tab)

  The Rev. C. H. L. Grimley recalls an early-spring visit to Aberystwyth, praising its gorse-gold hillsides, the walk over Constitution Hill to Clarach Cove and the miniature Giant's Causeway at Wallog.
• Central Wales: An October Week-end Run (opens in a new tab)

  C. Edwardes describes a week-end run from Welshpool to Dinas Mawddwy by way of Llanfair, Llanerfyl's ancient yew and the Cann Office Hotel, crossing the watershed into the Dovey Valley in blustery late-October weather.
• Through Four Kingdoms: The Journey of a New Zealander (opens in a new tab)

  A. J. Heighway's touring narrative reaches Part IV, Wales, the final leg of his four-month circuit of the United Kingdom, in which he rates his rides through North Wales among the best of the whole tour.
• The Harz Mountains (opens in a new tab)

  A touring note on the Harz district of central Germany, describing the pine-badged 'Harzklub' waymarking system and recommending Harzburg, Ilsenburg and Thale as bases for exploring the range, including the Brocken.
• Motor-Cycle Notes (opens in a new tab)

  Douglas Leechman tackles motor-cycle lubrication, contrasting drip-feed and hand-pump systems after a reader reports makers giving three riders on identical machines three different sets of instructions.