CTC Gazette, Vol 1919, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The Manchester District Association honorary editor sets out submission guidelines for the local supplement and reports on the difficulty of securing sufficient advertising revenue to cover printing costs.
- A list of members who donated to cover the Manchester Supplement's printing deficit, with amounts given by each contributor.
- Members are reminded that the Manchester District Association maintains a lending library of travel, road, and touring books available at the Manchester Wheelers Clubhouse.
- The Manchester DA's annual general meeting was held in January 1919, at which officers were elected and Mr W. H. Ward gave a well-attended illustrated lecture on a tour over the Simplon Pass.
- The full printed text of the Club's petition to His Majesty King George V, requesting revocation of the wartime Defence of the Realm regulations compelling cyclists to carry a red rear light and observe extended lighting-up hours, laid out with space for members' names and addresses.
- The January Council meeting appointed Mr C. S. Giddins chairman in succession to Mr R. D. Maddock, pays tribute to retiring committeeman Mr A. W. Trevarthen, and reminds members that all cheques must now bear a twopenny stamp.
- Outgoing Council chairman R. D. Maddock launches a nationwide petition demanding repeal of the wartime lighting regulations, urging every C.T.C. member, District Association and Chief Consul to gather signatures against the compulsory rear-light rule.
- Short touring notes include the story of the church at Angmering built from a Derby-winning squire's fortune, John Wycliffe's old haunts near Bicester and Ludgershall, and a protest at Manchester Corporation's flooding of farmhouses around Thirlmere and Haweswater.
- Writing under the pen-name Tom Cobley from the recently ended Western Front, a soldier-cyclist reflects on a shattered French Route Nationale and recalls happier winter touring memories, including a nine-day January tour battling successive gales.
- Jno. Hingeley traces the Roman Rycknield Street by bicycle from Bidford-on-Avon through Alcester, Studley, Coughton and Birmingham to Sutton Coldfield, Wall and Lichfield, noting the Gunpowder Plot gatehouse at Coughton Court.
- Writing as A.B.A., a cyclist describes touring Royal Deeside from Aberdeen through Banchory, Aboyne and Ballater to Balmoral and Braemar, taking in Drum Castle, Crathes Castle and the Invercauld Arms.
- A Manchester Guardian correspondent inspects a captured German army bicycle fitted with metal coil-spring tyres, a paper saddle and wooden pedal blocks in place of rubber and leather, evidence of Germany's wartime material shortages.
- Robert B. Breeze proposes a detailed scheme distinguishing forward and rear lights by vehicle type; A. E. Honeybourne urges Metropolitan District Association members to vote against splitting the district at its AGM; another member asks whether an Auto-Wheel attachment could ease pedalling his Raleigh tandem.
- Lists each Councillor's attendance at the eight 1918 Council meetings and records A. E. Honeybourne's nomination to fill the vacant Division XIII (Wales) Council seat.
- Minutes of the January meeting at the Hotel Russell record Mr C. S. Giddins's election as Council Chairman, committee appointments for 1919, and the resolution to organise a national petition against compulsory rear lights.
- A chronicle of District Association news for January 1919, including AGMs and run reports from Birmingham and Midland, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester and the Metropolitan Association.
- Roll of new full and family-membership candidates proposed for February 1919, listed by county from Cheshire to Wexford.