CTC Gazette, Vol 1922, No 9
Articles in this issue
- The editor criticises Viscount Curzon, M.P., fined £3 3s. for unlawfully possessing firearms despite championing a bill to compel cyclists to carry rear lamps, and rebuts a misleading London 'Safety First' Council poster that lumps cycle and motor-cycle accident figures together.
- The Birmingham and Midland D.A. wins damages of £4 and £7 10s in two running-down cases without a solicitor, Bolton members of the Manchester D.A. complete a gruelling 200-mile, 24-hour ride over Kirkstone Pass with 16 of 19 starters finishing, and the Liverpool D.A. launches a membership drive culminating in a lecture by 'Kuklos' on October 18th.
- A column on road-racing records notes M. G. Selbach's new 24-hour mark of 397¾ miles and Leon Meredith's 50-mile record of 2hrs 0min 32secs, both bettering figures set years earlier by Harry Green, and reports David Marsh's win for Britain over Swedes Skold and Stenquist in the first Shropshire-hosted world road championship.
- John Urry describes a soaking wet-weather ride and pays tribute to the late Martin D. Rucker, former managing director of the Humber Company and a pioneer cyclist who built some of the first home trainers and tandems, who died aged 67.
- An unsigned columnist advises readers to buy 'shop-soiled' bicycles cheaply in the autumn, urges makers to produce ladies' machines under 28lb ahead of the November Olympia Show, and describes a new child's pedalled scooter nicknamed 'The Flying Scud'.
- F. C. Peacock recounts a tandem tour with his 'crew' from London via the Bath Road, Salisbury, Exeter and Okehampton to Boscastle and Clovelly, plagued by broken spokes and burst tyres, returning home through Barnstaple, Porlock, Bridgwater and Glastonbury.
- C. G. Harper traces the history of the Kent coast, crediting the Quaker Benjamin Beale with inventing the bathing machine that turned Margate into Britain's first seaside resort, and describes old-world Hythe, once a Cinque Port, and its 13th-century church of St Leonard.
- Historical vignettes cover the three round church towers of Lewes, Piddinghoe and Southease, the Withington White Stone signpost in Herefordshire, and the Great Bolas romance of the disguised Earl of Exeter; Grenville A. J. Cole and L. B. Brain answer a reader's query with rival routes across mid-Wales via Aberystwyth, Machynlleth and Barmouth.
- Part II of a technical series, signed 'X.R.E.D.', recommends 28in. by 1½in. tyres over racing sizes for touring tandems, describes a home-made fix for creeping eccentric chain-adjusters, and argues for longer steering heads and a future bevel-driven tandem design.
- The Liverpool D.A.'s August Bank Holiday party rides to Bettws-y-Coed via the Swallow Falls, Capel Curig and the Nant Ffrancon Pass in glorious sunshine, then endures a soaking ride home to Liverpool the following day.
- A Birmingham-based writer surveys the touring roads radiating from the city, from the Bristol Road through Droitwich, Ombersley and Worcester towards Tewkesbury and Bredon Hill, and from Alcester and Henley-in-Arden to Lichfield, recalling boyhood walks of eighteen miles to attend the Cathedral's services.
- C. Edwardes describes touring the Lleyn peninsula in North Wales from a base at Llaniestyn beneath Carn Fadryn hill, covering the roads to Aberdaron and Nevin and the steep climb over Rhiw above Hell's Mouth bay, with views across to Bardsey Island.
- Letters debate the value of the official handlebar badge, Michelin detachable inner tubes, and whether Stratford-upon-Avon had Roman origins (Reginald Wellbye citing the Fosse Way and Ricknild Street); A. W. Stokes condemns reckless motoring after the withdrawal of police speed traps, and a 'Correspondence in Brief' digest reprints readers' notes on the ruined Salisbury-Blandford road.
- The Club announces the October election of Chief Consuls for 1923 under Articles of Association Nos. 26 and 27, listing the English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and foreign consulates due for election, with nominations due by September 15th.
- Detailed run schedules are listed for D.A. sections nationwide for September and early October, including Birmingham and Midland runs to Fillongley and Bridgnorth, a Glasgow run to Tummel via Loch Ruskie, and a Northumberland and Durham section trip to High Cup Nick on October 1st.
- The roster of new membership candidates for September 1922 is listed by county, marking family (F) and juvenile (J) members, together with candidates for affiliated membership from clubs including the Bournville Touring C.C. of Selly Oak, Birmingham.