CTC Gazette, Vol 1922, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes covering cyclist B. C. Duke's successful prosecution of an abusive taxicabman, Fitzwater Wray's ('Kuklos') lantern lectures in Liverpool and Manchester, an unusually contested Council election with seven candidates in Middlesex, a Ministry of Transport report blaming pedal-cyclists for only 1 accident in 94, a Chester traffic census where bicycles outnumbered all other vehicles, and the Club's planned protest meeting at Fulham Town Hall on November 6th against Lord Wigan's Lights on Vehicles Bill.
- C. G. Harper's Part III account of riding from Ripley through Guildford, Godalming and the war-scarred common at Hindhead, on to Petersfield and the village of Buriton (former home of historian Edward Gibbon), finishing via Horndean and Cowplain into Portsmouth, where the old Hilsea Lines archway has just been demolished.
- Robert Barker recounts a tandem tour from Dover via Ostend, Zeebrugge and Bruges into the Ypres Salient and Passchendaele, through the ruined battlefields of the Somme at Albert, La Boisselle and Fricourt, ending with a sighting of the Tour de France passing through Frixcourt on its way to Dieppe.
- A personal column citing a Birmingham traffic census recording 226,843 bicycles against 210,000 power vehicles, defending children's right to play on country roads, thanking a Leicester reader's praise for the writer's Cotswolds pieces, and closing with the poem 'Ballade of the C.T.C.'
- News round-up including a Metropolitan D.A. Hardriders' ride to Amberley on November 12th, £367 10s damages won for a Manchester lady member scalded by a car radiator, £100 for a Yorkshire girl cyclist run down by a motor van, a 150-strong Kent meet at Polhill, a Rob Roy Country tour by the Glasgow D.A., a joint Northumberland and Durham/Lothians and Peebles run to Wooler, the Sheffield D.A.'s win of the right to wheel cycles through city parks, and the Club's stand (No. 182) booked for the Olympia Show.
- F. W. Evans rebuts a critic of the fixed wheel, arguing free-wheelers waste momentum by 'pedalling rottenly', citing Guignard's hour record of over 63 miles as proof fixed gearing suits fast, steady riding, and discussing braking, stability on greasy surfaces, and the chill risk of coasting.
- Lighting-up time tables and moon phases for November, plus antiquarian notes on the Black Prince's well at Harbledown near Canterbury, the veteran locomotive 'Invicta', Salisbury's 1390 Poultry Cross, the vanished town of Thelwall, an 1708 milestone near Wansford, and 'Dead Man's Plack' in Hampshire where Earl Ethelwold was slain by King Edgar, followed by reader queries on a Hayfield-to-Snake-Inn footpath and cycling routes in Saskatchewan and southern Portugal.
- A column responding to fellow contributor John Urry on children playing in the road, defending pedestrians against a motoring-press demand to 'Abolish the pedestrian's Right to the Road', and discussing dangerous cross-roads such as the Great North Road junction near St Neots and Kimbolton where a Rolls-Royce recently killed a motor-cyclist.
- Grenville A. J. Cole, D.Sc., F.R.S., advises members preparing a Continental cycling tour to learn some of the local language and study guide-books and Baedeker maps, working through an example route from Nürnberg to Innsbruck via Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, Dinkelsbühl and Nördlingen.
- Letters column covering the contested Hertfordshire Council election (Fitzwater Wray explains his vote), Binham Priory and Cley church history queries, praise for friendly motorists, tandem brakes and cables (G. H. Leete, A. W. Rumney), disputed club-run pace in the Metropolitan D.A.'s South-Eastern Section, handlebar versus coat badges, the muddled 1922 Meriden pilgrimage, C. W. Empson's rule-of-the-road formula, and a call for a cycle-only trade show.
- D.A. news including the Yorkshire (West Riding) paperchase in which two hares eluded 29 hounds over 17.5 miles, the new Fife D.A. inaugurated at Dunfermline on October 7th under Provost Rev. A. D. Sloan, a 40-strong Yorkshire muster to Waterford Gill and Rylstone Cross, a Bristol and Gloucestershire all-night ride of about 180 miles to Lulworth Cove, and a Cardiff and South Wales midnight run to Tintern Abbey.
- Formal Council business: nominations for the 1923 Council elections in contested divisions (Kent, Lancashire, Middlesex, Surrey and others), candidates' election addresses, Chief Consul election results (E. Bright beat C. W. Cooke 53-50 in Hertfordshire; J. T. Lightwood beat G. Milne 298-45 in Lancashire), and Rights and Privileges Committee reports listing settled accident claims against motorists, taxicabs and an army lorry.
- Full November-December run schedules for District Associations nationwide, including Birmingham and Midland's four sections, Liverpool, Manchester and its Bolton section, the Metropolitan D.A.'s many London sections, Northumberland and Durham, Oxford and Reading, Sheffield, South Hants, and Yorkshire (West Riding).
- The Club's roster of new membership candidates for November 1922 listed by county from Bedfordshire to France, followed by a separate list of candidates for affiliated club membership including Erdington C.C., Renfrewshire Roads Club and Glasgow United C.C.