FOUNDED 1878. Chief Offices- 47, Victoria Street, London, S. W. SPORTATION LIBRARY INCORPORATED 1887. CONTINENTAL ROAD BOOK. NORTH AND CENTRAL EUROPE. (NORTH EUROPE AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.) THIRD EDITION. COMPILED BY W. G. W. GOODWORTH. 1901. London: E. R. SHIPTON, 47, VICTORIA ST., WESTMINSTER, S.W. Price to Subscribing Members, 5s.; to Non-Members, 7s. 6d., net cash. Cotyright.] [Entered at Stationers' Hall. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED BY CHORLEY AND PICKERSGILL, THE ELECTRIC PRESS, LEEDS. The be Cyclists' Touring Club-or, as it is familiarly known, 'the C.T.C."-is one of the largest institutions of its kind in It is international in its character, with a membership of the world. approximately 60,000. The Annual Subscription is the purely nominal one of FIVE SHILLINGS; the Entrance Fee is ONE SHILLING only. AMATEUR CYCLISTS-whether LADIES or GENTLEMEN ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ENROL THEMSELVES IN ITS RANKS. THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS for which the Club is established are: To encourage and facilitate touring in all parts of the world. To provide riding or touring companions. To protect its members against any infringement of the rights and privileges to which they are entitled, and to extend those rights and privileges wherever possible. To secure and appoint upon special terms and at reduced rates Hotels, Inns, Restaurants, Coffee Taverns, and Farmhouses in all countries in which cycle touring is practicable. To appoint a Consul in every town, who shall render to his fellow-members local information-germane to the pastime-unobtainable from other sources. To similarly appoint Official Repairers competent to remedy breakages and defects in machines. To publish monthly an official Gazette, to be supplied gratis to members only. To compile, and issue to members at reduced prices, Road Books and Maps especially adapted to the requirements of the cyclist. To collect, classify, and supply to members reliable information with regard to cycling in every civilised country. To obtain from the various Foreign and Colonial Governments special facilities for members whereby the temporary importation of their machines into the respective countries and colonies may be secured without payment of customs duties. To inculcate and encourage an esprit de corps in the brotherhood of the wheel, and to uphold and promote the true interests of Cycling the wide world over. Some of the ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM MEMBERSHIP are:1.--Intending tourists can obtain from the C.T.C. Touring Bureau, free of cost, information with regard to the best routes from place to place at home or abroad; assistance in planning their tours through desirable country; information as to Customs formalities and duties; advice as to the purchase of suitable maps, guides, etc. 2.---The assistance and guidance of the local Consul can be counted upon in every 3.-The benefit of the special and reduced tariffs can always be obtained at the appointed Hotels, Inns, Coffee Taverns, and Farmhouses in nearly every town and village in the United Kingdom, as well as in most of the countries in Continental Europe where cycle touring is feasible. The tariffs and discounts that apply to these houses result in a saving which, in some instances, is equal to 33% per cent. off the ordinary charges of the establishment, and the annual subscription is in consequence frequently recouped in a single day. 4.-Companions of kindred tastes can be readily secured by the free advertisement which is given to the requirements of the member in the Club Gazette (for details of which see below). 5. The member may purchase the Official Road Books and Year Book, and the Foreign Handbook of the Club. (The British Handbook and the Farmhouse and Country Lodgings List are supplied gratis.) The Road Books comprise a Continental Road Book in five volumes, and a complete British and Irish Road Book in six volumes. The Handbooks and Year Book (published annually) contain exhaustive lists of appointed Hotels (licensed and temperance) with particulars of the special tariff and discount applicable to each; Consuls and Repairers; together with railway and steamboat rates, rules, and regulations, a diary and riding record, hints as to touring and repairing machines, and much other information indispensable to the cyclist. The Farmhouse and Country Lodgings List includes a complete List of Coffee Taverns, Restaurants and Cafés, with their net charges to members of the C.T.C. set out in detail. 6. The member bonâ-fide on tour is entitled, on presentation of the C.T.C. ticket of membership or Customs Ticket, to introduce his machine duty free into Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Honduras, Italy, Luxembourg, Newfoundland, New South Wales, New Zealand, Norway, South Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, the United States of America and Victoria. (For conditions see Foreign Handbook.) 7.--The member is entitled to the benefit of the arrangements made with Messrs. Thomas Cook & Son, of Ludgate Circus, London, E.C., whereby he may obtain from them a reduction on their coupons for conducted cycling tours, and on their travelling and hotel coupons for independent cycling tours. 8.The member has the right of purchasing and wearing the neat and serviceable Cloths specially manufactured and retained exclusively for the Club, as well as the Badge, which is known all over the world. The Costumes are procurable of any of the numerous Official Tailors (a list of whom is furnished upon application), but the Badge is procurable of the Secretary only. (The purchasing of Badge or Uniform is quite optional.) 9.-The member touring abroad may enjoy, in addition to the advantages secured in the various foreign countries by the C.T.C. itself, the benefits of free reciprocal membership in the national Touring Clubs of Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, New South Wales, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and the United States of America. 10. The member is supplied gratis month by month with a copy of the Club Gazette, an illustrated magazine of from eighty to ninety pages, produced in the best style, containing full details of the Club's progress, reports of the meetings of the Council and the membership, narratives of tours planned and undertaken, critical and absolutely independent articles on the construction and relative values of the various types of machines, together with much other matter of interest. Apart from these material and personal advantages, the member has the satisfaction of knowing that he is aiding, by his alliance therewith, a body which is ever on the alert to promote the best interests of cyclists, and which has already been instrumental in (a) Reducing by 50 per cent. the charges formerly in force for the transit of cycles by passenger train, as well as in some cases securing special concessions in the way of reduced rates for both machine and rider [N. B.-The Club in conjunction with other cycling bodies is pledged to the introduction into Parliament of a Bill which provides for the reduction of the existing charges, and for the safe transit of machines at Company's risk.]; (b) Removing all unreasonable restrictions upon the use of the public parks by wheelmen; (c) Abolishing at one stroke the conflicting and anomalous county and borough bye-laws, and substituting therefor a statute law declaring cycles to be carriages within the meaning of the Highways Acts, and entitled to all the privileges and benefits applicable to other carriages; (d) Upholding and improving the status of the wheelman by condemning furious riding, road racing, and every other practice likely to bring the cyclist into disrepute with other users of the roads and the community at large; (e) Supplying, erecting, and maintaining thousands of warning notices on dangerous hills; (f) Compiling the only reliable Road Book yet placed upon the market; (g) Watching and opposing all measures restrictive of cycling introduced into Parliament or by local authorities; (h) Agitating in favour of, and introducing into Parliament, a measure compelling all vehicles to carry lights at night, and-pending its passing into law-co-operating with County Councils in dealing with the matter by means of bye-laws in their own particular districts; (i) Inducing hotel proprietors and other public caterers at home and abroad to study the special requirements of the wheelman, and to deal with him in a generous spirit; (j) Revolutionising and perfecting the dress of the cyclist, and providing an ideal outfit for the use of each sex; (k) Removing Customs barriers, or obtaining increased facilities for the temporary importation of tourists' cycles into foreign countries and the colonies; (1) Publishing and circulating with good effect tens of thousands of popular and technical pamphlets upon the only rational and economical system of road maintenance; and, in short, in rendering yeoman's service to the art and pastime of cycling. The liability of each member is, by the Memorandum of Association, strictly limited to the nominal sum of ten shillings, no portion of which amount will ever be called for, save in the remote contingency of the Club becoming involved in financial difficulties. (The Reserve Fund invested in Consols amounted at the end of the year 1900 to over £7,500; while the balance of assets over liabilities at the same date was nearly £14,000.) Forms of application for membership may be obtained of the Secretary, 47, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. A 2 |