CTC Gazette, Vol 1922, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The editor urges members to lobby their M.P.s against Lord Wigan's new Lighting Bill, which would require cyclists to display a rear red light and keep lamps lit even when a cycle is wheeled rather than ridden, and highlights an Essex Chief Constable's contradictory report on a police sergeant's motor-accident damages claim.
- Quoting a Morning Post leading article, the Gazette endorses stricter observance of the rule that overtaking vehicles must give way and that traffic from side roads must yield to the main road, and repeats the Club's call for a driving-proficiency test before any motor licence is issued.
- A column of cycling curiosities notes that C. Moss and F. Greenwood tied to the second in the Bath Road '100' and that county surveyors are finally repairing the long-neglected stretch of the Great North Road between Water Newton and Brampton Hut, and praises new front pannier bags sold by Camp and Sports Co-operators for touring luggage.
- The column reprints at length a Times medical correspondent's eulogy of cycling over motoring as exercise for the middle-aged, contrasting the motorist's 'muscular degeneration' with the cyclist's toned physique, and closes with a joke about a motorist's self-defeating rear-light warning sign.
- A review of Ulric Daubeney's 'Ancient Cotswold Churches' highlights the wool-trade wealth recorded in the churches at Northleach, Cirencester and Chipping Campden and the Rudhall bell foundry at Gloucester, citing the Turkdean parish register's account of Mrs Mary Coxwell's illegal 1683 burial in linen contrary to the wool-burial statute.
- Historical notes recall Charles Lord Stourton's 1556 hanging with a silken cord and burial at Salisbury Cathedral, the red cliffs and railway tunnels at Lee Mount, Dawlish, and the timbered Moot Hall at Thaxted, Essex; readers query cheap lodgings near Oxford and in Scotland and ask for route advice touring Switzerland and Brittany and Normandy.
- C. G. Harper revisits the old Ripley road from London, recalling the hospitable Dibbles of the 'Anchor' at Ripley, the wartime Canadian lumber camp that felled the woods behind Claremont, and the wartime bombing schools that once disturbed the peace of Wisley and Ockham Common.
- The Gazette dissects Lord Wigan's new Bill on vehicle lights clause by clause, objecting to its sloppy drafting and £5-£20 fines, and above all to its requirement that a cycle show lights even when wheeled rather than ridden, which could leave a cyclist with a failed lamp unable lawfully to move his machine at all.
- The Glasgow D.A. secures accident damages of up to £50 for injured cyclists and protests against tar-and-chippings road resurfacing, while the Manchester D.A.'s September 10th 'century' ride sees twelve of thirteen starters qualify for certificates over a course through Holmes Chapel and Congleton.
- John Urry describes a comic collision between a wall-gazing pedestrian and a cyclist, reflects on a mixed summer of rain and sunshine, and urges readers to keep cycling through the coming winter months rather than observing an 'old-fashioned close season'.
- The Gazette reprints Daily Express motoring writer H. Vernon Hunt's account of cycling among traffic for the first time and finding charabancs terrifying, alongside other motorists' own condemnations of reckless week-end driving on the Portsmouth and Brighton roads.
- Letters debate alternatives to the rear warning light and how to repair punctures in a fairly new Dunlop cover, and Albert R. Thornewell describes the ancient Droitwich-to-London saltway through Alcester and Stratford-on-Avon that predates any proven Roman road there.
- The Club announces contested Chief Consul elections for Hertfordshire (Every Bright v. Cecil W. Cooke) and Lancashire (James T. Lightwood v. George Milne), publishes the candidates' election addresses, and sets out the county-by-county schedule for the November election of Councillors.
- Notices cover the surviving medieval quintain on the green at Offham, Kent, a new lightweight Sturmey-Archer coaster hub tested on the Greenhill descent at Wirksworth, and the Glasgow D.A.'s summer touring tally, which included members riding to John o' Groats and Land's End.
- An invitation '100 in 8' time trial run by the Southern Section of the Birmingham and Midland D.A. on August 20th sees 28 starters split into two parties via Shipston-on-Stour and Banbury, with G. S. Thompson still completing the course after losing half an hour helping a competitor stricken with cramp.
- Detailed October and early-November run schedules are listed for D.A. sections nationwide, including Birmingham and Midland outings to Chaddesley Corbett and Bredon Hill, a Glasgow run to Aberfoyle, and Metropolitan section rambles to Reigate Hill and Box Hill.
- The roster of new membership candidates for October 1922 is listed by county, marking family (F) and juvenile (J) members, together with candidates for affiliated membership from clubs including the Railway Clearing House Athletic club and a Plymouth cycling group.