CTC Gazette, Vol 1922, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Reports the return to pre-war prices and the growth of lightweight machines at the Olympia Show, the death of Lord Wigan's Lights on Vehicles Bill, the fiercely contested 1923 Council elections (over 1,100 voting papers cast in Middlesex alone, with E. Bright, A. J. Leakey and Leonard Ellis newly elected and E. J. Green unseating G. S. Giddins in Kent), the election of former record-breaking cyclists R. Chancellor Nesbitt and H. H. Spencer to Parliament alongside the defeat of vice-president W. G. Howard Gritten, and The Motor's editorial condemning inadequate headlights on commercial lorries.
- John Urry welcomes the prospective replacement of tramlines by rail-less cars, denounces an anonymous press suggestion to ban horses and bicycles from city streets, argues the real remedy is building more and better roads, and urges readers to give children bicycles and tricycles as Christmas presents.
- A detailed review of the 1922 Cycle and Motor Cycle Show at Olympia, covering the Club's own stand (No. 182) and machines, tyres, saddles and lamps exhibited by Raleigh, New-Hudson, Rudge-Whitworth's new lady's Aero-Special, Sparkbrook, Triumph, B.S.A., Ariel, Sunbeam's new 27½lb Light Roadster, the chainless F.N., the McKenzie lightweight motorcycle, and accessory makers including Constrictor, Dunlop, Brooks, Lucas and Sturmey-Archer.
- "Robin Hood" rebuts a correspondent's claim that fixing responsibility for road accidents does not matter, citing a £1,500 compensation case won for a bereaved family, and recounts a cycling doctor's court victory after squirting ammonia at an attacking dog, plus the writer's own encounter with a dog near Bedford using a bicycle pump.
- An essay in praise of winter touring, recalling skating and fell-climbing in Lakeland, a snow blizzard endured near Abington in Clydesdale, the Welsh coast around Aberystwyth and St David's, and Cornwall's Tintagel, Padstow, Newquay, Perranporth and the Lizard peninsula, ending among the heather and snowdrops of Goonhilly Downs.
- Report of the crowded Fulham Town Hall meeting of November 6th, chaired by outgoing Mayor Louis A. Hill, at which Secretary G. H. Stancer's resolution opposing compulsory rear lights was carried unanimously after speeches by F. W. Evans and P. J. Randall, with a supporting letter read from "Wayfarer."
- Charles G. Harper describes a North Downs touring route from Wrotham to Guildford via Ightham, Riverhead, Westerham, Reigate and Dorking, then a detour to "Evershed's Rough" near Effingham, where a granite cross marks the spot Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of Winchester died in a riding accident on 19 July 1873.
- D.A. news including a Cardiff and South Wales paperchase whose hares evaded capture, Birmingham and Midland compensation of £4 4s and £3 10s for two members, a Glasgow D.A. Christmas supper and New Year run to Galashiels, a Fife D.A. run to St Andrews hosted by Provost and Mrs A. D. Sloan, and speed-judging wins for E. Bennett (Yorkshire West Riding) and T. Fitzgerald (Cardiff and South Wales).
- Lighting-up times and moon phases for December, plus notes on Worbarrow Bay in Dorset, "Hotspur's Chair" at Alnwick Castle, the "Monk's Stone" murder memorial near Seaton Delaval, the martyr's monument to Dr Rowland Taylor at Aldham Common, and Blakeney church's beacon tower, followed by a Shropshire accommodation query and reader replies on cycling in southern Portugal and the treacherous Hayfield-to-Snake path in Derbyshire.
- News items including the new Lord Mayor of Bristol being an old C.T.C. cyclist, the death of Fife D.A. press secretary A. Lunan, German bicycle statistics from Willie Budzinski (7-8 million machines nationwide), veteran racer Sam Brown winning a 20-mile Humber C.C. race on his old "Eiffel" Humber, Hampshire police pursuing a motorist who ran down a lady cyclist at night, "Kuklos"'s well-attended lecture to the Manchester D.A., and a Birmingham and Midland D.A. paperchase won by Satchwell.
- Letters covering C.T.C. election etiquette, agitation tactics on rear lights and railway charges from Councillor J. Spencer Hill, a reply from "Wayfarer" on a cycle-only trade show, the disputed "Wheels"/"Wings" club call, a call to found a Dublin D.A., several rebuttals to F. W. Evans's fixed-wheel article including one from T. H. Pettipher on tandem rim-heat problems, map-mounting and tyre-repair tips, and antiquarian notes on Stanford-le-Hope and a "phantom parish" at Caldecote near Newport Pagnell.
- The Returning Officer's certified results of the 1923 Council elections in six contested divisions, including E. J. Green defeating C. S. Giddins in Kent and over 1,100 voting papers cast in Middlesex, minutes of the Council's quarterly meeting at Leicester on October 28th with resolutions on D.A. publicity, railway fares for cycles and nomination deadlines, 1923 subscription renewal reminders, and District Association AGM notices for Cardiff, Glasgow and South Hants.
- Full run schedules for District Associations through December and into January, covering Birmingham and Midland's four sections, Bristol and Gloucestershire, Cardiff and South Wales, Fife, Glasgow, 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 and Southern Section).
- The Club's roster of new membership candidates for December 1922 listed by county, plus a candidate for Life Membership and further candidates for affiliated club membership including Renfrewshire Roads Club, Torrance C.C., Greenock Wheelers C.C., Versatile C.C., Chapeltown Road C.C., Polytechnic C.C., Cavendish C.C. and Roslyn Ladies' C.C.