Vol 2, No 11

Articles in this issue

• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the T.C.C.I. council's sessions of 4, 12 and 15 November 1896 under director-general Federico Johnson: the council commissions Marelli and Bertarelli to produce the 1897 Annuario, sets the 1897 hotel-plaque fee at 2 lire, notes the medical section's touring doctor service is now assured in every mandamento of Italy, and appoints a five-member commission (Johnson, Riva, Gorla, Bertarelli, Lorenzi) to negotiate with the Unione Velocipedistica Italiana.
• Trattative di accordi coll'U. V. I. (opens in a new tab)

  Full text of the correspondence (13-26 November 1896) and the Turin convegno between the T.C.C.I., led by Federico Johnson and Alberto Riva, and the Unione Velocipedista Italiana's committee under Conte A. di Viarigi, negotiating a formal division between sport (U.V.I.) and touring (T.C.C.I.): Viarigi's proposal to merge the two associations' administrations is rejected by delegates Riva and Bertarelli, and the meeting closes with a signed accord of reciprocal facilities - including T.C.C.I. buying up the Unione's signposts, plaques and repair-box stock - pending ratification at the U.V.I.'s Verona congress.
• Consolato Generale (opens in a new tab)

  Twentieth list of Consular Corps appointments approved at the council's sittings of 21 October and 12-18 November 1896, naming new consuls for Ferrara, Lecce, Stuttgart and Namur and vice-consuls across dozens of Italian towns, followed by a correction to a previously misprinted consul's name at Petriolo in the Marche.
• Sezione Strade (opens in a new tab)

  Roads-section chief Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli reviews the new 1:300,000 military Carta Itineraria of Italy, corrects a 10km transcription error in the Guida delle Grandi Comunicazioni's Perugia-Todi itinerary (no. 160), and details roughly 1,048km of newly added routes - including Torino-Lanzo-Forno, Ferrara-Bondeno-Sermide-Revere and Vicenza-Marostica-Bassano - in the guide's latest reprint, noting that 36 pages of corrections and additions to the guide are bound into this issue.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Comfort-section chief A. Cesare Marelli announces distribution of new accreditation booklets to over 200 affiliated hotels, publishes the standard circular spelling out innkeepers' obligations (courteous reception, bicycle storage, displaying the T.C.C.I. plaque, discounts even without a machine present), and lists recommended hotels with their member discounts and reduced room rates in towns including Bologna, Genoa, Florence, Chiavenna and Annecy.
• Sezione Movimento (opens in a new tab)

  Movement-section chief Stanislao Parboni reprints the key articles of France's cycling traffic code (bell and lamp requirements, right-of-way, pavement and municipal bans), warns travelling members to properly clear customs re-export papers to avoid import duties, and announces new discounted fares (30%, or 50% for groups of ten or more) on the Lake Como and Lake Iseo steamers for members travelling with their machines.
• Sezione Medica (opens in a new tab)

  The Medical Section, headed by Dott. Remo Segre and Dott. Favari Piero, announces a new 1897 group accident-insurance scheme with the Societa Anonima Italiana di Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni, offering members daily disability pay, permanent-disability and death benefits up to 5,000 lire, and third-party civil liability cover, for annual premiums ranging from 2.50 to 6.50 lire.
• Pali Indicatori (opens in a new tab)

  A 28 October 1896 circular from deputy director-general Alberto Riva invites the club's consuls to propose sites for the year's hundred new roadside signposts, prioritising junctions, shortcuts and steep gradients, and sets specifications for the cast-iron, blue-and-white plates (650x320mm on a 3-metre iron post) that a 25-lire individual donation can have inscribed with the donor's name.
• Sezioni (opens in a new tab)

  Branch news: the newly constituted Ancona section's founding banquet (5-12 November); Piacenza's dedication festival with lectures by prof. Odoardo Jacoangeli and avv. Giuseppe Cattanei, organised by conte Giacomo Douglas Scotti di Vigoleno; Torino's second-anniversary banquet hosting delegates from Terni, Ivrea, Florence and Lucca; a Messina rally at Taormina led by console Dr. Seguenza; and Cannobio's new vice-console Bozzacchi offering his courtyard as free bicycle storage for Lake Maggiore tourers.
• Regolamento e Programma della Gita Roma-Milano (opens in a new tab)

  Rules and full seven-day itinerary for a 660km Rome-to-Milan cycling rally organised by the Rome section's Corpo Consolare for May 1897, reciprocating an earlier Milanese visit, routing through Terni, Foligno, Cagli, Rimini, Cesena, Bologna, Parma and Piacenza with an entry fee of 5 lire and a participation fee of 60 lire for the first fifty entrants, plus an initial list of registrants including several women cyclists.