CTC Gazette, Vol 1919, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The Manchester DA editor reiterates supplement guidelines and reports that the subscription list to cover the printing deficit continues to receive contributions.
- Final 1919 record of member donations toward the Manchester Supplement's printing costs, with a request for further annual contributions.
- Members are reminded of the Manchester DA's lending library at the Wheelers Clubhouse, offering travel, road, and antiquarian works relevant to cycle touring.
- Reports on runs to Over Alderley (4 October), a Paperchase (11 October) whose hares evaded most of the pack en route to Reid's Farm, Siddington (25 October), and Pott Shrigley (1 November), each capped with an impromptu sing-song or recitation round the tea-house piano.
- The concluding instalment of a Lake District tour describes bathing at Dead Man's Pool, the walk up to Easedale Tarn past Sour Milk Falls, and the return south via Windermere, Newby Bridge and Levens Bridge.
- Minutes of the 5 November Manchester DA committee meeting record October runs attendances, a resolution deploring the compulsory carrying of rear lights, the election of a Social Sub-Committee, and referral of the Swan Hotel, Winwick's refusal to serve tea to the police, followed by the December-January runs programme and notice of a Whist Tournament.
- Notes urge members to renew early given the Club's growing membership and financial pressures, report the Amateur Camping Club's renaming as the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland, criticise the tied-house system's effect on wayside inns, promote the new War Memorial Fund, and note Parliament's continued, reluctant retention of the wartime rear-light order after the railway strike.
- Notes on lighting-up times are followed by pieces on the Whiteleaf and Bledlow hillside crosses near Princes Risborough, an ancient wooden font at Youlgreave, the Carnac megaliths of Brittany, and the Dunmow Flitch custom, plus two readers' route recommendations from Exeter to Sheffield.
- "Lawrence R. Bourne" describes an Irish cycling tour from Cork via Macroom, the Keamaneigh Pass and Glengarriff to Killarney and the Gap of Dunloe, recommending Mrs Harvey's Poulgorum Hotel at Glengarriff and O'Sullivan's at Kenmare.
- "No. 7352" recounts a tour from York to Edinburgh, through the Trossachs, Glen Ogle and Pitlochry to Inverness and Fort William, climbing Ben Nevis and crossing Rannoch Moor via Glencoe before finishing at Worcester via the Shap Pass.
- J. W. Hirst describes a multi-day tour from London through Daventry, Warwick and Coventry to Peterborough and the Norfolk coast at Hunstanton, Wells and Cromer, finishing via Norwich, Beccles and Chelmsford.
- F. T. Bidlake surveys the revived Olympia Cycle Show, covering new Sunbeam, B.S.A., Rudge-Whitworth, Humber and Raleigh models, the Belgian chainless F.N., auxiliary-motor "Motorped" and "Cyclo-Motor" attachments, and new scooters including the Skoota-Mota and the Silva.
- Correspondents continue the "Woodman Spare That Tree" debate over roadside hedges and blind corners, discuss variable-speed hubs, renew the appeal for the war memorial fund, propose a new Sussex District Association centred on Brighton, and debate the merits of compulsory rear-lights.
- Notices seek Consuls for districts in Yorkshire and Glamorganshire, announce a Northumberland and Durham D.A. general meeting, and record the results of the contested 1920 Council elections for Lancashire, Middlesex, Yorkshire and Wales.
- Minutes of the November special Council meeting in London record the appointment of G. B. Day as Chief Clerk, an extra £5 grant to the Birmingham District Association, and committee reports on the British Handbook's 1920-21 print run, the Club's stand at the Olympia Cycle Show, and proposed duties for Chief Consuls, Deputy Chief Consuls and Consuls.
- A chronicle of District Association news for October-November 1919, covering committee and runs reports from Birmingham and Midland (including its Annual Dinner), Bristol and Gloucestershire, Glasgow, Leicestershire and Rutland (the Webb Presentation Fund), Liverpool, Manchester and the Metropolitan Association, whose report also appeals for the National War Memorial Fund.
- Roll of new full and family-membership candidates proposed for December 1919, listed by county.