Vol 2, No 2

Articles in this issue

• Cancelleria (opens in a new tab)

  Notice that members may pay 2 lire in advance for registered postal delivery of the year's Guides and Profiles, otherwise they are sent unregistered and free of charge; explains that each Profilo costs 1 lira and the Guida delle Strade di Grande Comunicazione 5 lire, so registration is worth the expense to avoid loss in the post. Signed by the chancellor, A. Provasoli.
• Avviso (opens in a new tab)

  The Treasurer-General warns members resident in Milan who have not yet paid their 1896 subscription that a debt-collector will call at their homes to collect it.
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the council's 12, 19 and 25 February 1896 sittings: approving the repair-kit regulations, hiring extra staff for the Milan cycling exhibition, authorising legal proceedings against members in arrears, commissioning Dell'Oro to draft a model highway code for bicycles nationwide, debating the printing of the January Rivista with Colombo e Tarra, appointing new Consular Corps posts, and authorising the Treasurer-General to hire a debt collector.
• [Lettera al Ministro delle Finanze sulla proposta tassa sulle biciclette] (opens in a new tab)

  Open letter from Director-General Federico Johnson to the Minister of Finance opposing a proposed bicycle tax, arguing Italian cycling and its infant manufacturing industry (the 42-lire import duty per machine yielded 365,464 lire in 1894) are too fragile to bear it, and contrasting Italy's estimated 30,000-50,000 bicycles with France's 201,923 and its 1,982,668-franc tax yield; reproduces the Ministry's 17 February reply that the petition would be examined.
• Consolato Generale, Dodicesimo elenco delle nomine del Corpo Consolare (opens in a new tab)

  Twelfth list of new Vice-Consuls approved by the council on 12 and 19 February 1896, naming appointees including Dr Antonio Baronio at Vogogna, marchese Pietro Torriglia at Genoa (via Peschiera) and Arturo Moroni at Foggia.
• Norme per il Corpo Consolare del T.C.C.I. (opens in a new tab)

  Guidance for the Consular Corps on recruiting members through the new membership booklets, cultivating the local press, organising spring and autumn club rides in squads of no more than twelve riders under a squad leader, reporting rides for publication in the Rivista Mensile, and managing the repair kits, medical kits and warning-post signage fund (25 lire per post) that donors may dedicate and have inscribed with their own name.
• Regolamento del Corpo Consolare del T.C.C.I. (opens in a new tab)

  Thirteen-article regulation on the Consular Corps' internal hierarchy and correspondence, defining the authority of head consuls, consuls and vice-consuls and instructing them to address separate letters on financial, consular, mailing, library, roads, comfort, medical, technical, customs, legal and scientific matters to the relevant department head rather than to the Director-General; signed by acting Consul-General Gorla.
• Regolamento per le cassette di riparazioni (opens in a new tab)

  Sixteen-rule regulation governing the T.C.C.I.'s roadside repair kits, open to members and to Touring Club de France, Belgian Touring Club and Allgemeiner Radfahrer-Bund members alike, listing the tools and consumables each numbered kit holds (spanners, pumps, valve tubing, chain links, oil, petrol, talc) with prices, and making the kit-keeper responsible for monthly remittances to headquarters; dated 12 February 1896, signed by Johnson and Lorenzi.
• Avviso (opens in a new tab)

  Reminder that admission to the General Assembly requires the current year's membership card, issued only to members who have paid their 1896 subscription.
• Divisione della Guida delle Strade di grande comunicazione (opens in a new tab)

  Roads Section chief Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli announces the new Guida delle Strade di Grande Comunicazione, covering about 370 road sections and 35,000 km (up from 200 sections and 24,000 km the year before) in three booklets, northern Italy, central/southern Italy, and a foreign section covering Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring lands, giving distances, over 20,000 altitude readings and road-condition notes, with historical and touring notes dropped for space and collaborator Giuseppe Romagnoli thanked.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Comfort Section chief Carlo Tarra lists hotels offering T.C.C.I. members discounted set-price meals and lodging, among them the Croce Bianca at Broni, the Corona at Catania, the Bellevue at Como (15% off) and the Rosa at Rapallo, with sample tariffs for lunch, breakfast and full board at each.
• Sezione Legale (opens in a new tab)

  Legal Section chief Dell'Oro thanks the Consular Corps members who recruited local lawyers as free legal advisers to members, asks the remaining consuls to send in names and addresses for the Guida, announces a distinguishing badge for legal advisers, and prints the roster of consultants engaged so far, from Acqui to Varese.
• Candidati (opens in a new tab)

  List of well over a hundred new membership candidates proposed between 31 January and 29 February 1896, spanning Rome, Milan, Turin, Rovereto and Budapest, and including engineer Vito Otto Blaty of Budapest and the painter Italia Zanardelli of Rome.