CTC Gazette, Vol 1919, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Notes report a Parliamentary deputation of Haigh and Stancer to Labour Party leaders on rear-lights, introduced by M.P. W. G. Howard Gritten, alongside a discourse on touring-luggage methods and news that a badge-supplier price rise and continuing shortages of guidebooks and maps are hampering the Club.
- Notes on lighting-up times and alternative Worcester-to-Malvern routes are followed by a member's rejoinder on touring in Leicestershire, and later queries and replies recommend accommodation in the Wye Valley, North Wales, North Cornwall and around the Pistyll Rhaiadr waterfall.
- The Manchester DA editor reiterates the supplement's submission guidelines, addressed to the Honorary Editor at 45 Birchfields Road.
- Updated list of members funding the Manchester Supplement's 1919 printing deficit, from John Benson's £1 1s. down to quarterly subscriptions.
- Reminder of the Manchester DA lending library of touring and road books at the Manchester Wheelers' Clubhouse.
- An anonymous member sets out an eight-point scheme for expanding the duties of District Consuls, including collecting renewal subscriptions, recruiting new members, and vetting local repairers and hotels.
- Reports on the Arley run (14 June, Whit Saturday), the Rivington run (21 June) via Worsley and Winter Hill to Rivington's private zoological gardens, and the Lower Peover run (28 June), where news of the Peace signing reached the party near Knutsford.
- "Sweet Seventeen" recounts the chaotic start of a 75-mile family cycling holiday from Manchester towards North Wales, beset by pedal trouble before they had gone five hundred yards (to be continued).
- Minutes of the 2 July Manchester DA committee meeting record a ruling that the D.A.'s yearly-membership motion was out of order, June runs attendances, discussion of Club advertising, and appointment of delegates to the Old Timers' Rally committee, followed by the August runs programme.
- Members seek touring companions for a Birmingham-or-Bristol tour, an auto-wheel tour along the South Coast and through Wales, a Lakeland cycling holiday, and tours in England, France or North Wales.
- Lawrence H. A. Harbourn concludes his snow-bound Pembrokeshire ride, reaching Fishguard, Newport and the Nevern Valley, and contrasts the winter conditions with a previous fly-plagued midsummer crossing of the same route.
- A route description from Killarney via Killorglin, Glenbeigh and Caherciveen to the ferry for Valencia Island, taking in Aghadoe's ruined cathedral, Drung Hill and the site where the first transatlantic cable came ashore in 1858.
- "Two Ladies" describe a day-by-day Devon and Cornwall touring itinerary from Paignton through Dartmoor, Launceston, Boscastle, Tintagel and Bodmin to Looe, with overnight costs at each stop.
- "Beacon Hill" describes a joint N.C.U./C.T.C. "Old Timers" rally at Normanton-on-Soar on 14 June, where riders wore silk badges denoting whether they first rode a boneshaker, an ordinary or a safety bicycle.
- "L.687" describes a rain-soaked camping holiday from Otley to Fulwith Mill near Harrogate, sheltering from daily storms while exploring Fountains Abbey, Bolton Abbey and the Kex Gill Pass.
- Robert Barker recounts an all-night ride of the Metropolitan D.A.'s Northern and Eastern Sections from Waltham Cross to Ely for breakfast, continuing via St Ives to Cambridge and back to Cheshunt.
- Correspondents debate Wales' vacant Council seat for Division XIII, a T.C.F. subscription increase, and the merits and drawbacks of tricycles and the Eadie two-speed coaster hub.
- A chronicle of District Association news for July 1919, covering the C.T.C. Day membership drive, the Inter-D.A. Meet at Oxford, and committee and runs reports from Birmingham and Midland, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Glasgow, Leicestershire and Rutland, Liverpool, Lothians and Peebles, Manchester and the Metropolitan Association.
- Roll of new full and family-membership candidates proposed for August 1919, listed by county from Bedfordshire to Middlesex, including the Rt. Hon. Herbert Samuel.