Vol 2, No 3

Articles in this issue

• Assemblea Generale dei Soci del T.C.C.I. (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the General Assembly held 15 March 1896 at the Veloce Club di Milano, chaired by Prof. Vittorio Nigherzoli (Console for Cremona) with 76 members present: approving Johnson's Director-General report and the 1895 accounts, debating photo membership cards proposed by members Ballanti and Pizzagalli, and settling avvocato Mira's interpellation on relations with the rival Unione Velocipedistica Italiana with an order of the day accepting future talks.
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the 4, 14 and 18 March 1896 council sittings: commissioning the 1896 Annuario, pursuing customs facilities with Riva and Johnson, reporting the Monza road-signpost installation nearly complete, setting a 25-centesimo bicycle badge, noting Comfort Section chief Tarra's resignation, pressing the printer Colombo e Tarra over delays with the February Rivista, and granting a free subscription to the Rome army general staff.
• Rettifica (opens in a new tab)

  Correction clarifying that the November 1895 subsidy request from console Meregalli and his colleagues was meant only to help cover the costs of the Rome section's first club ride, and was declined simply to avoid setting a precedent.
• Accertamento dell'identità personale nei rapporti col servizio della Posta (opens in a new tab)

  Publishes the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs' 16 March 1896 reply agreeing to grant T.C.C.I. members the same postal-identification facility already given to the Unione Velocipedistica Italiana, on condition each member carries a booklet bearing their photograph alongside the legalised membership card.
• Accordi colla Allgem. Radfahrer Union (opens in a new tab)

  Announces the reciprocity treaty with the German Allgemeiner Radfahrer-Bund is concluded; Professor Augusto Geisser of Regensburg will come to Milan in early April to sign the agreement's terms on the union's behalf.
• Esposizione di Bruxelles (opens in a new tab)

  The T.C.C.I. accepts the Touring Club de Belgique's invitation to the Brussels Exposition du Cycle, opened 28 March, sending a repair kit, a medical kit, the bound 1895 Rivista Mensile, copies of the 1895 Guida, its route profiles, the statute and other administrative material.
• Tessere con fotografia (opens in a new tab)

  From this month members may obtain photo-identity booklets, costing 50 centesimi plus 20 centesimi postage, by sending their membership card and photograph to headquarters for return by registered post.
• Cancelleria (opens in a new tab)

  The Guida delle Strade di Grande Comunicazione will be ready by 20 April, followed in May by the Annuario and four more route profiles (I Giovi, Genova-Spezia, Spezia-Cisa-Berceto and Berceto-Parma); dispatch begins the last week of April for members who paid the 2-lire registration fee, with ten days' grace to collect in person, after some of the first three profiles were reported lost in the ordinary post.
• Consolato Generale, Tredicesimo Elenco delle nomine del Corpo Consolare (opens in a new tab)

  Thirteenth list of Consular Corps appointments approved on 26 February, 14 and 18 March 1896, naming new Consuls including Carlo Cavanenghi at Alessandria and Tullio Ferretto at Treviso, and Vice-Consuls such as Cesare Guglielmina at Alagna and Ulisse Andrei at Perugia.
• Sezione Strade (opens in a new tab)

  Roads Section chief Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli's column: recalls engineer Giorgio Benker and Count Vittorio Cavazzocca dei Mazzanti sending photographs from the Milan-Venice club ride, and members Carini and Dr Achille Bertarelli's summer cycling tour through Lebanon, the Hauran and Palestine, finishing beneath the walls of Jerusalem with their machines carried in a sack; describes the new Annuario of consuls, hotels, legal and medical contacts, the foreign volume of the Guida delle Strade, the coming Guida Regionale della Lombardia, and the profile-surveying work of avvocato Cesare Grondona and marchese Pietro Torriglia shown at the Milan cycling exhibition.
• Estratto dello Statuto (opens in a new tab)

  Extract from Article 2 of the T.C.C.I. statute setting out the association's aims: protecting cyclists' use of the public roads, legal assistance to members, discounted hotels and mechanics, negotiated rail and shipping fares, warning signposts, published road guides and the monthly Rivista, and reciprocal arrangements with foreign touring clubs.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Comfort Section list of hotels giving T.C.C.I. members discounted rates, among them the Albergo della Posta and Albergo San Gottardo at Bellinzona, the Ristorante della Stazione at Colico and the Hotel Rebecchino in Milan, with sample tariffs for lunch, breakfast and full board at each.
• Sezioni, Cremona, Programma (opens in a new tab)

  Cremona section's programme of club rides for 1896, from a March run to Casalbuttano through a two-day excursion to Lago d'Iseo (23-24 May, 92 and 98 km) to a June ride to Solferino and San Martino via Desenzano and Brescia, organised by consuls Cottarelli, Nigherzoli, Spadini and Frani.
• Torino (opens in a new tab)

  Report on the Turin section's first club ride, 15 March to Venaria Reale, where members unanimously agreed a second ride for 22 March (Turin-Alpignano-Rivoli) and asked the Consular Corps to cost a Turin-Milan trip timed with the Rome-Milan and Venice-Milan rallies; signed by consuls Alessandro Avogadro and Pasquale Ulivi.
• Roma (opens in a new tab)

  The Rome section's two recruitment circulars: one touting T.C.C.I. benefits (over 5,000 members, hotel and mechanic discounts, six regional guides, 18 route profiles) under a patronage committee including the Duchessa Grazioli-Lante and Prince Ludovisi di Venosa, and the other announcing weekly Sunday training rides ahead of the Rome-Milan rally, meeting at clubs including the Veloce Club and the Unione Ciclistica Romana; signed by head consul Vito Pardo.
• [Agevolazioni commerciali per i soci] (opens in a new tab)

  Notice of member discounts: photographer Oscar Pettazzi of Milan sells the Express Minimum camera to members for 10 lire instead of 15; the Rivista Velocipedistica di Torino cuts its annual subscription 25% to 4.50 lire; and the Società Anonima delle Terme gives members 25% off simple baths and 15% off Turkish baths and massage.
• Candidati (opens in a new tab)

  List of well over one hundred new membership candidates proposed between 29 February and 31 March 1896, from towns across Italy including Cremona, Rovereto, Trieste and Venice.
• Gita Roma-Milano (opens in a new tab)

  The Rome-Milan rally's organising committee, headed by honorary president Don Emanuele Ruspoli (Sindaco di Roma) and effective president Prince Ludovisi di Venosa, with rules limiting entry to single-seat, muscle-powered bicycles with a working brake at 90-110 lire, and the six-day, roughly 550 km timetable from Rome (9 May) via Terni, Foligno, Fano, Rimini, Bologna and Piacenza to Milan (15 May).