CTC Gazette, Vol 1922, No 7
Articles in this issue
- The editorial column discusses a Witham court case in which a sidecar motor-cyclist was fined for negligently knocking down a lady cyclist, the Wakefield Tradesmen's Association's refusal to back compulsory rear lights, Mr Dixon H. Davies's ton-mile figures on motor-lorry road taxation put to the Institute of Transport, and France's new rule requiring a red reflector on cycles.
- A first-person gossip column relays correspondence from Thomas Porter and J. Foxley Norris on Michelin and Rich detachable air-tubes, describes W. F. Freeman's recovery from a shattered thigh with advice from veteran racer M. A. Holbein (who once rode a tricycle with an adjustable crank after breaking his own leg twice), and narrates the writer's first motor tour through Worcester, Shrewsbury, Newent, Bridgwater, Lynmouth, Clovelly, Tintagel and Sidmouth, in which he watched Burkill win the Anfield "100".
- C. Edwardes describes two 50-mile Highland runs: Perth to Kinloch-Rannoch via Loch Tummel, Dunalastair and Schiehallion (with a pearl-fishing anecdote from an Aldcharmaig mussel-hunter), and Fort William to Kingussie via Roy Bridge, Loch Laggan and an ascent of Creag Meaghaidh above Choire Ardair.
- J. D. Sangway recalls French touring holidays, including a motorcycle trip through Burgundy and the Jura to the Grande Chartreuse monastery near Chambéry and the Palace of the Popes at Avignon, and a bicycle tour of the Cévennes gorges of the Ardèche and Tarn, singling out the Pont d'Arc by full moon.
- A review of Alfred Watkins's book "Early British Trackways", explaining his theory that prehistoric camps, tumuli and churches align along dead-straight "ley" lines sighted between hilltops, and testing it against the London district and the Roman Watling Street between London and St Albans.
- John Urry's column praises an exceptionally fine May and June for cycling, argues that the million and a half unemployed should be put to repairing Britain's drought-cracked roads, and rebukes a London daily's complaint that children are a "nuisance" on the roads.
- Round-up of D.A. news: the Northumberland and Durham D.A. protests loose road gravel; the Yorkshire (West Riding) D.A.'s midnight run to Hardraw Force past Lake Semmerwater; the Cardiff and South Wales D.A. splits into Western and Eastern sections; a Ladies' 12-hour ride to Newbury led by Mrs H. C. Thorn, Miss L. Juffs and Miss M. L. Fox; and the Birmingham and Midland D.A.'s third annual 24-hour run from Selly Oak to Stratford.
- Lighting-up times and moon phases for July are followed by notes on the watersplash at Lower Halliford, the merchant houses of Kings Lynn, and Dunston Pillar on Lincoln Heath (built 1751 by Sir Francis Dashwood); the Queries section carries requests for accommodation near Ypres and in Tuscany, and H. E. Darby's account of paying a kronen deposit to bring his bicycle across the Austrian border at the Brenner Pass.
- Miscellany including the Fellowship of Old Time Cyclists' summer meet at Ripley, Mr H. V. Clow's photograph of the Lady Cyclists' Rally led by Mrs G. H. Stancer, the rapid sales of the new McKenzie lightweight motor cycle, the Cardiff and South Wales D.A.'s account of pass-storming in the Brecknocks to reach a waterfall, and news that "Wayfarer" (Mr W. M. Robinson) may give a third winter lecture series on "The Open Road".
- Profiles Mr E. F. Kennard of Cardiff, who rode 100 miles inside 12 hours on a Raleigh just before his 82nd birthday, and Mr W. Hamilton of Sandwich, an 89-year-old member who has ridden 11,728 miles since turning eighty, including a century ride at 81.
- The correspondence pages open with "Wayfarer" thanking members for the bicycle presented to him at Meriden on 21 May, followed by letters on electric cycle lighting using the Montil dynamo set, poor attendance on South-Eastern Metropolitan D.A. runs, and a member's protest at the Editor's refusal to fully endorse the Solicitors' Journal's attack on the 20 m.p.h. speed limit; later pages carry a running argument over the reliability of Roman (wood) wheel rims, a dispute about the Summer Time Act, and Fred C. W. Stevenson's complaint about the late change of date for the Meriden memorial service.
- Thomas Porter describes eleven years' experience of the Rich detachable air-tube on tandem and solo Alpine tours and in Ireland, praising its ease of removal for roadside or indoor repair despite occasional failures at the joint.
- Short reader notes including A. Beverley of Stirling District Asylum seeking members to help form a new local D.A., J. Ambler's history of the Bolton Section, and Mr A. E. Smith of Swindon offering members his notes on villages and churches within 20 miles of Swindon.
- Notice of the reissue, as two separate 7s. 6d. volumes, "London to York" and "York to Edinburgh", of C. G. Harper's history of the Great North Road first published 21 years earlier, praising its coaching-age anecdotes and account of once-thriving wayside inns such as the "Haycock" at Wansford.
- Announces the next Council meeting at the Royal Station Hotel, York, on 8 July 1922, an application by 23 members to form a new Fife District Association covering Fife, Clackmannan and Kinross, and a special general meeting of the Lothians and Peebles D.A. to discuss new territorial boundaries.
- The regular multi-page July runs list giving meeting points, leaders and tea-house destinations for D.A. sections from Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff to Glasgow, Yorkshire and the various Metropolitan sections around London.
- The month's roll of new Ordinary, Family and Juvenile membership candidates by county, followed by candidates for Affiliated Membership from clubs including the Vegetarian C.C., Glasgow Clarion C.C. and Stepney Jewish C.C.