CTC Gazette, Vol 1912, No 8
Articles in this issue
- The Secretary announces publication of the new C.T.C. British Road Book, Vol. I (South-East England, including the Isle of Wight), clarifies the touring-fare rebate terms offered through Dean and Dawson, Ltd., and reports the Club's new telegraphic address and the progress of the fledgling Sheffield District Association. He also records a member's successful £35 damages claim against the Yorkshire Electric Tramways Co. after a motor-cycle accident between Glass Houghton and Pontefract.
- Fred Horsfield reports on a family camping holiday on Hayling Island, with tennis at the Royal Hotel, South Hayling, and a water supply arranged with the local dairyman's milk-can, before answering a Windermere member's detailed queries on tents, bedding and stoves for motor-camping.
- Adolph P. Rosenberg describes a three-day cycling tour through northern Denmark from Copenhagen via Hørsholm and the ruined castle of Gurre to Hellebæk and Hornbæk, then through the Grib Forest to Frederiksværk and Hillerød, taking in the castles of Frederiksborg, Fredensborg and Kronborg.
- An account, subtitled "The Yorkshire Dales and Loch Lomond," of a rain-plagued 1910 tour combining cycling and camping through Wharfedale, Swaledale and Teesdale via Knaresborough, Fountains Abbey and the Buttertubs Pass, ending with a flooded camp at Luss on Loch Lomond where a cow eats the party's stores.
- E. J. MacGrath recounts a solo cycle tour from Rotterdam up the Rhine through Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz to Bingen, then via Heidelberg to the walled town of Rothenburg-am-Tauber and Nürnberg's castle torture-chamber, finishing through Ulm, Lake Constance and the Black Forest to Freiburg and Strasbourg.
- The concluding instalment of a Norwegian cycling tour, riding past the Jølster Vand down to the Geiranger Fjord, through the Gudbrandsdal and Romsdal valleys by the Trolltind pinnacles, and up the Sundal and Dovre Fjeld salmon country on the River Orkla to finish at Trondhjem after roughly a thousand miles.
- J. Ll. Warden Page surveys road surfaces across the far north of Scotland from Inverness through Dingwall and Achnasheen to Kyle of Lochalsh, over the notoriously bad road to Applecross, north via Ullapool, Inchnadamph and Durness to Cape Wrath, and on through Tongue, Thurso and John o' Groats to Helmsdale.
- A tour through Galloway from Castle Douglas via Dalbeattie, Kippford and Sweetheart Abbey, recounting a muddy, badly-guided attempt to cross the tidal River Nith by the little-used ferry near Glencaple in order to reach Caerlaverock Castle.
- John A. Randolph's musings on old Surrey coaching inns and their signs, naming the Angel at Thames Ditton, the Anchor at Ripley, the Green Man at Putney Heath, the Lion and Lamb at Farnham, the Keep Within Compass at Bletchingley, and houses at Godstone, Oxted, Leatherhead, Ockley, Shere and Albury.
- Douglas Leechman reviews the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races, including the Collier brothers' twin-cylinder win and the water-cooled Scott and Regal-Green engines, discusses the safety drawbacks of pillion seats, and reprints his own correspondence with the L.C.C. Tramways Department after being thrown against a tram partition on the Kentish Town route.