CTC Gazette, Vol 1919, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The Manchester DA editor reiterates editorial guidelines for the supplement and reports continued difficulty in attracting advertising revenue to meet printing costs.
- Current list of members funding the Manchester Supplement's printing deficit, with a request for further contributions.
- A final appeal to Manchester members to collect signatures for the petition, warning that under existing law a cyclist faces a fine of up to twenty pounds if a rear lamp goes out accidentally.
- Reminder of the Manchester DA lending library of cycling and touring literature, with the honorary librarian's address for catalogue requests.
- A member argues that opposition to a proposed road over the Sty Head Pass in the Lake District is motivated by walkers' jealousy of cyclists rather than any genuine concern about motor traffic.
- A satirical list of thirteen ways members undermine club life, from skipping meetings and criticising officials to freezing out new members on runs, reprinted with additions from a trade-press original; followed by notice of an experimental North-Western Section run to Pott Shrigley and Allostock.
- Reports on runs to Overton (9 February), where Mrs Russell provided dinner at Church View; Pott Shrigley (15 February), with its usual tea from Mrs Cotton; and Siddington (1 March), where the party's lucky number thirteen again turned out and Mrs Woods hosted tea.
- Minutes of the Manchester DA committee's 5 March meeting record a letter from the Leicestershire and Rutland D.A. on Parliamentary representation, the transfer of Wheelers' Clubhouse shares, and February runs attendance, followed by the April-May runs programme to Bosley, Pott Shrigley and Allostock.
- Notes report the rear-light petition's deadline extended to 30 April and a deputation of Giddins, Haigh and Stancer to the Home Office, the March Council meeting's concern over the Club's growing financial deficit, and the Auto-Cycle Club's fee waiver for C.T.C. members joining in 1919.
- Revised tables of railway charges for carrying bicycles, tricycles and motor-cycles as passenger's luggage, owner's-risk parcels and left luggage on the principal railways.
- Notes on lighting-up times and moon phases are followed by a correction to A.B.A.'s Deeside article on Aboyne Castle, readers' queries about touring Normandy, Brittany, the Cotswolds and Church Stretton, and a detailed sightseeing itinerary for an Edinburgh-to-John o' Groats tour.
- John A. Randolph describes an unnamed, determinedly old-fashioned English village of thatched cottages and unpaved streets, its church reached by a steep lane, contrasting its untouched character with the nearby railway and school.
- Notice of a vacancy on the Council for Division XIII (Wales), with nominations received for Evelyn Bright and Algernon Eugene Honeybourne.
- Notice, agenda and the Council's Annual Report for 1918 for the 11 April Birmingham AGM, covering membership numbers, the Roll of Honour, legal defence cases, the rear-light campaign, proposed luxury taxes on cycles, cycles donated to disabled soldiers, and the audited Statement of Accounts and Balance Sheet showing a large revenue deficit.
- Minutes of the March Council meeting at York record Maddock's confirmation as honorary life member and as Council chairman by postal vote, the Home Secretary's agreement to receive a lighting deputation, referral of the Club's finances to the Finance Committee, and committee reports on the rear-light petition and District Association accounts.
- Correspondents debate rear-light and head-light codes and whether an Auto-Wheel attachment (with H. W. Bartleet and A. W. Rumney replying) would help a Raleigh tandem climb hills.
- "M.S.B." argues that cycling and touring suit the less athletic as well as the strenuous, describing leisurely 20-30 mile days spent with her sister exploring ancient buildings and finding an idyllic spot by the Loire in Touraine.
- Itinerary for the Manchester D.A.'s 1919 Easter Tour (17-27 April) led by W. F. Freeman, a 572-mile route from Kingston through Winchester, Devon's Widecombe and Torquay to Bath and back via Reading and Staines.
- A chronicle of District Association news for March 1919, covering committee meetings, Easter Tour arrangements and runs programmes from Birmingham and Midland, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Glasgow, Leicester and Rutland, Liverpool, Manchester, the Metropolitan Association, Nottingham and Derby, Sheffield and South Hants.
- Roll of new full, family and life-membership candidates proposed for April 1919, listed by county from Berkshire to Lanarkshire, including one candidate from the USA.