CTC Gazette, Vol 1922, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes on the Rights and Privileges Committee's action against an innkeeper at Chewton Mendip who refused cyclists tea, Mr. Justice Horridge's ruling apportioning blame in a fatal cyclist-pedestrian collision, a rebuttal of proposed compulsory horns and brakes for cyclists, and a defence of cycle touring against claims it is 'dead'; closes with a list of members' cash donations to the Club, including gifts from Mr. G. F. Mavenport and the illustrator A. R. Quinton.
- Touring notes on places of historic interest: Powderham, Berry Pomeroy and Dartmouth Castles in South Devon, the surviving seventeenth-century gibbet on Walbury Hill near Inkpen Beacon in Berkshire, and Thomas Banks's monument to the child Penelope Boothby in Ashbourne church, Derbyshire.
- Member queries seeking touring advice on apartments in Whitby, a three-week cycling tour of the Tyrol and Switzerland via the Stelvio and Simplon passes, lodgings in Snowdonia and Anglesey, the Lizard district of Cornwall, and a spring tour of South Portugal, followed by replies giving a South Downs route from Birmingham to Petersfield and an eighteen-day Switzerland/Italian Lakes itinerary via the Stelvio Pass, Lugano and the Simplon.
- Miscellany column reporting that the 1922 Club Handbook, printed by Ed. J. Burrow & Co. of Cheltenham at 2s. 6d., is nearing completion; also discusses the growing popularity of quickly-detachable wheels, the Trust Houses discount-coupon scheme, and a Birmingham cyclist named Hertzman who covered 40,000 miles on Dunlop tyres.
- Reports MPs' and public figures' views on compulsory cycle rear lights, including the Bishop of Exeter's objection that a red light is 'a monstrous interference with the liberty of the cyclist', Viscount Curzon's correspondence with member W. Weston favouring a white disc, and Captain George Bowyer's undecided stance after being approached by Mr. S. M. Birdsey.
- John Urry's 'Notes of a Nomad' column rejects the complaint that cyclists are being 'hustled off the road', asserting their equal right to the highway against motorists, and closes with a tribute to the late Sir Alfred Bird, the Birmingham baronet, tricyclist and road-record holder, killed by the very motoring he had helped pioneer.
- F. T. Bidlake argues that heavy motor lorries, thirty-seat coaches and tractors are destroying roads built for lighter traffic, and calls for a road charge scaled to vehicle weight and speed together with legislation to keep the heaviest vehicles off unsuitable roads.
- An account of CTC lecturer W. M. Robinson ('Wayfarer')'s lantern talk 'The Lure of the Road' to the Leicester D.A. at the Memorial Hall, chaired by Mr. C. R. Robson, followed by a Charnwood Forest run in which club member Tom Curry planted a firework under Wayfarer's borrowed bicycle to fake a tyre burst.
- Obituary of Sir Edward Ernest Cooper, Bart., a CTC life member and Club Consul at Overton, Hampshire, who had been Sheriff of the City of London in 1912 and Lord Mayor in 1911, and who died aged 73 at Berrydown Court, Overton.
- C. G. Harper describes Puddletown in Dorset, the 'Weatherbury' of Thomas Hardy's 'Far from the Madding Crowd', its church with the tombs of the extinct Martin family of Athelhampton, and the novel's storm scene set in the churchyard.
- Round-up of D.A. news: the Northumberland and Durham D.A. adopts black and old gold as its colours, the Cardiff and South Wales D.A. holds a whist drive for injured member Mr. Bibbings, a Metropolitan D.A. run is caught in a deep snowdrift crossing Botley Hill, and Sir Harold Bowden of Raleigh writes on mass production and British craftsmanship.
- A selection of members' renewal letters praising the Gazette and Handbook, including one from an 80-year-old captain still looking forward to the season, a member on his 44th consecutive subscription, and testimonials citing the Club's Customs Ticket and a fortnight's tour of Hants, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Wilts.
- News items including a Metropolitan D.A. lightweight-camping exhibition at Hampstead Garden Suburb, 'Wayfarer's forthcoming Bolton and Glasgow lectures, and a motorist fined £10 after knocking down Mr. and Mrs. B. M'Quillin, of the Leicestershire and Rutland D.A., on a grass verge in daylight.
- Reader letters on the age limit for cyclists ('Sexagenarian', who rode 4,517 miles at 58), wood rims for racing machines, the closing of village churches (C. E. Trumper, Chief Consul for Suffolk), touring in Ireland (Alex O. Ashworth), a family tour from Worksop to Southport with a baby in a sidecar, cycling on the Thames tow-path near Richmond, railway charges for accompanied bicycles, and the Daylight Saving debate.
- Notice of the Annual General Meeting to be held in London on 7 April 1922, an appeal for Consuls in Yorkshire (West Riding) towns including Barnsley, Doncaster and Skipton, and reports of annual D.A. meetings at Bristol and Gloucestershire, Nottingham and Derby, North Lancashire, Metropolitan, Birmingham and Midland, Lothians and Peebles, and Cambridge.
- The March/April 1922 club-run timetable for dozens of District Association sections nationwide, from Birmingham and Midland's four sections and Bristol and Gloucestershire to Cardiff and South Wales, Glasgow, Leicestershire and Rutland, Liverpool, Manchester, the eight Metropolitan sections, Northumberland and Durham, Oxford and Reading, Sheffield, South Hants and Yorkshire (West Riding).
- New membership candidates listed by county, followed by separate lists of Candidates for Life Membership (including Mrs. F. Grazebrook of Stourton Castle) and Candidates for Affiliated Membership from clubs such as the Polytechnic C.C., Huddersfield R.C., Plymouth C.C., Wigan Wheelers and Finsbury Park C.C.