CTC Gazette, Vol 1914, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Argues that cycle touring offers a unique opportunity to study local and national history, architecture and geography en route, citing a Board of Education booklet on teaching history; also notes Lt.-Col. C. H. L. Baskerville's election as an honorary member of the Touring Club de Belgique.
- Reports on the sixteenth annual Congress of the League of Touring Associations, hosted in London in late June/July 1914 by the A.A. and Motor Union with C.T.C. co-operation; describes sessions at the Great Central Hotel, delegates including Lt.-Col. C. H. L. Baskerville, W. N. Blakeley and W. S. Burke, excursions to Brighton and Watford, and the closing banquet at the Welcome Club, Earl's Court, chaired by Mr. W. Joynson-Hicks, M.P.
- By Mabel Richards: advises on packing luggage in handlebar and rear-carrier bags for women's touring, warns against turning to look back at motor horns (citing a rider who crashed into a baker's cart), and recommends touring in Ireland, especially County Wicklow, Connemara, Kerry and Donegal.
- By "Wayfarer": a satirical column mocking newspaper hostility to cyclists (quoting The Times and The Field), a new Dingwall motor-cyclists' club, Welsh place-names, and the writer's own facetious "don'ts" for pedestrians in traffic.
- By F. T. Bidlake: discusses touring literature (Fraser's Round the World on a Wheel, R. L. Jefferson's To Constantinople on a Bicycle, the Workmans' Algerian Memories, J. W. Allen's Wheel Magic), a curious book on trick/fancy cycling, a technical dispute over left- and right-hand pedal-pin threads, and advice against carrying luggage on one's own shoulders rather than the machine.
- By "The Wanderer": reviews Reginald Wellbye's new Roadfaring Guide, Road Touring in Central England, covering the Chilterns, Charnwood Forest and the Peak, and announces a club photographic competition (prizes 20s., 10s., 5s.) to be judged by Mr. Henry Walker of Legbourne, Louth.
- Gives August lighting-up times and moon phases, prints a lengthy reader account of an Italian tour from Bordighera through Florence, Foligno, Loreto and Bologna to Venice, correspondence on touring Lakes Garda, Como, Maggiore and Lugano, and members' queries and replies on accommodation in Scotland, Sussex, Yorkshire, Brittany, Normandy, Paris and Budapest.
- By A. W. Rumney: describes fitting a tandem with the new B.S.A. pattern auto-wheel (motor attachment) and a 517-mile tour from London via Wisley, Farnham, Bath, Gloucester, Bridgnorth, Chester, Liverpool and Lancaster to Keswick, with detailed notes on gearing, oil consumption and mechanical drawbacks.
- By George R. Tweedie: recounts cycling trips around Hampshire photographing notable ancient yew trees, including those at Warblington Church, Hound churchyard near Netley, Brockenhurst, the Rufus Stone near Winchester, and the celebrated clipped yew at Twyford.
- By J. L. Barker: a route description for a cycling tour from Shrewsbury through Montgomery, Newtown and Llanidloes, over Plynlimmon to Aberystwyth, then via Machynlleth, Towyn, Tal-y-llyn, Dolgelly, Barmouth, the Vale of Ffestiniog, Bala and Llangollen.
- By "Imperial Rover": narrates a Brittany cycling tour from Cherbourg, taking in a Trappist monastery near Briquebec, Mont St. Michel, Dinan, a Breton peasant funeral and wedding dance, the Chapel of St. Barbe, and a religious "Pardon" witnessed at St. Nicodeme.
- By Jno. Hingeley: describes a south-to-north ride across Staffordshire from Birmingham to Buxton via Tamworth, Abbots Bromley, Uttoxeter, the Dove and Churnet valleys, Leek and the moorland village of Flash.
- By R. Lister: a touring guide to the Isle of Man starting from Douglas, with day-ride suggestions to Ramsey and the Point of Ayr, Laxey and Snaefell, Peel, and Castletown and Port St. Mary, including the chasms and Sugar Loaf Rock.
- By John Ll. Warden Page: a tour by yacht and bicycle through County Mayo, Ireland, beginning at Clare Island (associated with Grace O'Malley/Grania Uaille), crossing Achill Sound by ferry, and cycling through Bangor Erris, Bellacorick and Crossmolina back to Newport.
- By Douglas Leechman, M.I.A.E.: covers railway carriage charges for motor-bicycles and side-cars, the Philipson automatic governor pulley, the Harcourt aluminium-finned radiator developed by Mr. Harcourt Kitchen of Glasgow, and results of the Scottish Six Days and A.C.U. motor-cycle trials.
- Gives seaside photography advice: correct exposure times for beach groups, surf, and clouds, use of yellow screens and orthochromatic plates, and tips for photographing children playing on the beach.
- Announces the C.T.C.'s organised summer tour to the Rhine (Bingen-am-Rhine, inclusive charge £4 7s.), plus sales of the British and Continental Handbooks, Chief Consular vacancies in several English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish counties, and the Club's cycle, auto-wheel and motor-cycle insurance schemes.
- Report of the Council meeting held at Leicester in July 1914 under A. W. Trevarthen, recording a letter of thanks from President the Duke of Portland, adoption of Finance and Rights & Privileges Committee reports, transfer of Darwen to the Preston District Association, and abandonment of a planned motor-cyclists' rally for lack of interest.
- By G. H. Cort: describes and gives dimensions for a patented rigid tin rear-carrier case he designed in 1909, detailing its construction, attachment to the carrier and back stays, and capacity for a fortnight's touring kit.
- Members' letters on cycling touring literature (Thomas Stevens, the Workmans' Algerian Memories), experiences with self-sealing air tubes and the Villiers two-speed gear, cycling in middle age, Edwin Cannan on motor taxation policy, a custom-built "cob" bicycle frame, and opposition to the licensing of "trade" cyclists proposed by the Corporation of London.
- Monthly committee reports and August run schedules from the Birmingham and Midland, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Metropolitan, Nottingham and Derby, Preston and North Lancashire, Sheffield, Southampton, and Yorkshire (West Riding) District Associations.