CTC Gazette, Vol 1912, No 9
Articles in this issue
- The Secretary announces the Half-Yearly General Meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 11th October, the annual Chief Consul elections, and new tandem concessions on the Limited Risk Rate and the Great Central Railway's Special Cyclists' Return Ticket scheme.
- A tribute to the Club's Chairman of Council, Mr. William Kendall Burnett of Aberdeen, whose sudden death is announced with a supplement portrait and an obituary recounting his career as a magistrate, cricketer and chairman of the Scottish Road Book committee.
- The Editor notes that the Bath Road Club's traditional London-to-Bath-and-back twenty-four-hour ride has lapsed this year, with the Club's own Metropolitan District Association stepping in to run a similar ride from a western suburb to Bristol and back.
- F. H. Bryant, aged twenty-one and touring alone on an all-black Rudge with an Armstrong three-speed gear, describes a rough March crossing from Newhaven to Dieppe and the ride on to Rouen at the start of an attempt to reach Basel and back in a fortnight.
- W. A. Ward explores the little-visited tract of Cardiganshire between Aberystwyth and Cardigan, hemmed in by the Ellenith mountains and Plynlimmon and reachable, he argues, only by bicycle for want of a railway.
- C. Edwardes recalls a March visit to Hereford in the immediate aftermath of the coal strike, praising the cathedral's chained-book library and tombs of its bishops after a painfully slow train journey of only sixty miles.
- M. Adeline Cooke describes the quiet Hampshire coastal resort of Milford-on-Sea, once a simple fishing village by its ancient church, now reached from New Milton station or by motor omnibus from Lymington.
- J. F. Ashby, LL.M., recounts a party of three C.T.C. members touring between Scotland and Italy on an economical Newhaven-Dieppe-Pontarlier return ticket costing £4 13s. plus a 5s. bicycle registration fee.
- Douglas Leechman praises the metallurgists and toolmakers behind weldless steel tubing and precision ball bearings, prompted by inspecting a side-car at Mr. Sheppard's Hammersmith works whose frame tube had snapped after a low-speed accident on Roehampton Lane, Barnes.