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The Motor Cycle 1912 Jan-Jun

  • Aberdeen and District M.C.C. Flexibility Trial, 625
  • AC. Tricar, Registration and Licence for, 533
  • Accessories, Among the, 20, 145, 181, 386, 495, 558, 590, 639
  • Accumulators, Charging off Mains, 89
  • Acetylene, Dissolved, 528
  • — Gas, Running on, 235
  • — Generators, 98, 99, 244, 245, 307, 396, 453
  • — Number-plate and, Combined, 608
  • Agency Question, 271, 341
  • Air Inlet, Auxiliary, 634
  • — Inlets, 691
  • — Tubes, 508
  • All-weather Riders, Tip for, 283
  • America—
  • — Features of the New Model Cycles, 45,46
  • — Lady Motor Cyclists in, 52
  • — Records, 225
  • — Road Race, 121
  • — Sidecars or Small Cars in, 224
  • — Tourist Trophy in, 84
  • Anglo-Scottish Hill-climb. See Auto Cycle Union.
  • Arden Cycle Car, 586
  • Argenteuil, Hill-climb at, 344
  • Ariel Gear, Improvements to the, 640
  • Arms Hill, Climbing, 173, 175, 196, 218, 348
  • Arthur Moorhouse Memorial Fund. See under Moorhouse, Mr. A. J.
  • Associations, Motor Cycle, 163
  • Australia, Consumption Test in, 259
  • — Hill-climb in, 233, 316
  • — Motor Cycling in, 400
  • Austria, Motor Cycle in, 240
  • Auto Cycle Club de France, 12, 573
  • Automobile Club of France and, 173
  • — Circuit de Paris, 311, 312, 353, 379, 404, 430, 438
  • — Easter Trial, 277
  • — Grand Prix of the, 429
  • — Road Race Cancelled, 682
  • — Hill-climb, 146, 172, 225, 226, 231
  • Auto Cycle Union—
  • — Anglo-Scottish Hill-climb, 628, 654
  • — Annual General Meeting, 275, 380
  • — Competitions Committee, 457
  • — Future of the, 387
  • — Hill-climbing Championship suggested, 475
  • Loughborough, Mr. T. W., Secretary, 395
  • — Motor Cyclists’ Progressive Association, 171, 248, 272, 281, 341, 398
  • — Ninth Annual Dinner, 40, 105
  • — Notes, 121, 172, 198, 224, 281, 352, 379, 428, 450, 527, 564, 623
  • — Official Handbook, 392
  • — One Day Trial, 125, 206, 228, 253, 268, 273, 277, 341, 433
  • — Judges’ Report, 482
  • — Re-run of, 478
  • — Through the, on a Sidecar, 502
  • — Tyre Troubles in, 528
  • — degulatiOLis, 666
  • — Restrictions of Open Hill-climbs, 613
  • — Silencer Trials, 290, 513, 529
  • — Six Days’ Trials, 147, 168, 219, 271, 471, 485, 503, 511, 546, 656, 696 Routes, 653
  • — Tyre Makers and, 721
  • — Tests in, 667, 710
  • — Test Case to be Fought by, 165
  • Tourist Trophy Race, 29, 74, 101, 107. 121, 150, 290, 684, 685, 711, 713
  • — Acceleration in the, 190
  • — Entries, 146, 173, 196, 225, 249, 600, 625, 626, 656, 657, 682, 712
  • — Fund, 54, 73, 313, 546, 624, 626
  • — Machines Entering, 693, 713-717, 723
  • — New Regulations, 457
  • — News, 624
  • — Position of 1912 Entrants, 730
  • — Practising on the Course, 718-720
  • — Preparations for, 559
  • — Progress of, 712
  • — Trade and the, 211, 251, 493, 509, 539, 566,675
  • — Warning Note, 81
  • — Who will Win ? 700
  • — Will Makers support the l 198
  • — Trials, Regulations, 170
  • — Two-stroke Engines and the, 270, 310, 343, 371, 422
  • Automobile Club de Seine et Oise, Le Mans Meeting, 513, 545, 600
  • “ Baby ” Quadcar, 177
  • Back Rest, Home-made, 20, 210
  • — Wheel, Fitting Springs to, 533
  • Badges, Exhibition of, 88, 119, 193, 245, 279
  • Balbus and his Wall, by Fred Gillett, 694 Bat Foot-starter, 214
  • — Sidecar, 268
  • Bearings, Ball and Plain, 272
  • Bedelia Cyclecar, Hour Record, 519
  • Belgian Motor Cycle Show, 224
  • — Trial, 429
  • Belt Drills, 571
  • — Fasteners, Acme, 304
  • — Adjustable, 20
  • — Flexible, 306
  • Belts, Carriage of Spare, 365
  • — Chain or, 234
  • — Chrome Leather for, 148
  • — Dunlop Improvement, 236
  • — J.P. Tyre and Belt, 181
  • — Leather Chain, 580
  • — Parkins, 536
  • — Rubber, 732
  • — Sidecars and, 90
  • — Slack, Taking up of, 184
  • — Special, 132
  • — Tightening Tip, 396
  • Bicars, Brown Midget, 671
  • “ Bicycle Luge,” New Form of Winter Sport, 65
  • Binks, Chas., Problem of the Automatic Carburetter, 567
  • Birmingham M.C.C.—
  • Birmingham-Land’s End-Birmingham, 601
  • — Land’s End-Birmingham Run, Official Results, 610.
  • — Birmingham to Perth and Back, 408, 427
  • — Hill-climb at Harley Bank, 622
  • — — Results, 627
  • — Members’ Hill-climb, 543
  • — Ninth Annual Dinner, 46, 47
  • — Passenger Trial, 40
  • — Reliability Trial, 722
  • — York and Back, 11
  • B.P. Scouts, Coventry and Warwickshire M.C. v., 489, 568
  • Bradford M.C.C. Open Hill-climb, 506, 572
  • Brampton Variable Gear, 610
  • Brighton, M.C.C. Opening Run to, 351
  • Brigsteer Brow Hill-climb, 409
  • Bristol M.C.C. Hill-climb, 457, 463, 487
  • Reliability Trial to Porlock, 573
  • British Automobile Racing Club—
  • Brooklands Meeting, 686, 723
  • British Motor Cycle Racing Club, 97
  • First Monthly Meeting, 174, 319, 345, 375
  • Fourth Meeting ol' the, 629
  • Meeting at Brooklands, 428
  • Race Meeting, 486, 515, 540, 557, 573, 603
  • Second Monthly Meeting, 460
  • Brookdale M.C.C.—
  • — Hill-climbing and Reliability Trial, 683
  • Brooklands. See also British Motor Cycle Racing Club.
  • — Record Breaking at, 724
  • — Easter Meeting, 276, 381, 424
  • — June Meeting, 659
  • — Motor Cycle Events at, 405
  • — Observations, 659
  • — Six Days’ Trials and, 18, 41, 65
  • — Special Fittings on Racers, 389
  • — War Office Tests at, 95, 120, 129, 143, 155, 167, 353
  • — Zenith Cup, 656
  • Brown and Hingston Gear, Pedal Control, 62
  • — Midget Bicar, Improvements in the, 6 71
  • Burnley A.C., Competitions, 343
  • Bwlch-y-Groes. See Dinas Mawddwy.
  • Calcott, Trial of the Lightweight, 391
  • Cambridge University M.C.C. Hill-climb, 228, 582
  • Camera Attachment, 304
  • Cameras, How to carry, 640
  • Camping, Motor Cycle and, 327, 357
  • Cams, Tappets and, 235
  • Canada, British Motor Cycles in, 471, 583
  • Canadian Motor Cyclists’ Association, 599
  • Cape Peninsula M.C.C.—
  • — Hill-climbing Contest, 641
  • — Reliability Trial, 672
  • Carburetters, 139
  • — Adjustment of, 357
  • — Automatic, 80, 472, 473, 509, 526, 528, 538, 565, 567, 592, 593
  • — Automatic, Problem of the, 676
  • — Problem of, 618, 644, 648
  • — B. and B. Improvement, 283, 288
  • — Coils and, 477
  • — Ignition and, 606
  • — Lukin, 88
  • — Mending the Float, 476
  • — Racing, 364 Sensitive, 448
  • — Senspray, 659 Simple, 524
  • — Without a float Chamber, 458
  • Cardiff M.C. Open Hill-climb at Rhubina, 548
  • — South Wales A.C. and Inter-club Hill-climb, 353
  • Ceylon, Hill-climb in, 103
  • Chain Belt, Improved, 332
  • — Drive, Alleged Vibration with, 293
  • Chest Pads for Racing, 172
  • Classification, Single-cylinder Class Limits, 308, 343
  • Clean Counties, 32, 121, 143, 225
  • — Licences in, 308
  • Clark, R. O., Photograph, 38
  • Clothes Brush, Collapsable, 20
  • Club Competitions, Handicapping, 25

CLUB NEWS—

  • Aberavon, Port Talbot, and District M.C.C., 355
  • Aberdeen and District M.C.C., 465, 466, 604
  • Anglesea M.U., 206
  • Armagh and District M.C , 551
  • Ayr and District M.C., 601, 660
  • Batley and District M.C.C., 320, 383 B
  • edford and District M.C.C , 47, 96, 382, 661
  • Belfast and District M.C., 258, 410, 550 688
  • Birmingham and District M.C.C., 14, 96, 206, 284, 354, 355, 465, 551
  • Bishop Auckland, Darlington, and District M.C., 206, 466, 578
  • Blackburn M.C.C., 207, 258, 436
  • Blackpool and Fylde M.C.C., 14, 47, 97, 154, 688
  • Bolton and District M.C.C., 207
  • Bournemouth and District M.C.C., 128, 284
  • Bradford M.C.C., 284, 411, 491
  • Brecon and Radnor M.C.C., 660
  • Bristol B. and M.C., 14, 76, 96. 176, 232. 233. 258, 284, 320. 355, 411, 436, 579
  • British Motor Cycle Racing-Club, 97, 154
  • Brookdale Club (Catford), 232, 355, 465, 521
  • Burnley A.C., 382, 466, 550
  • Cambridge M.C.C., 128, 176, 383
  • — University M.C.C., 550
  • Canterbury and District M.C.C., 128, 520
  • Cardiff M.C., 76, 154, 176, 207, 320, 41 0. 4^0. 521. 632
  • Carlyle (Chelsea) C.C., 14, 176, 631
  • — — C. and M.C.C., 725
  • Cathcart District M.C.C., 354
  • Central Technical College M.C.C., 578
  • Chester and District M.C.C., 206, 465
  • Chesterfield and District M.C.C., 47, 206, 631
  • Chorley and District M.C.C., 207
  • Cork and District M.C.C., 128, 354, 355, 410, 436, 520, 550, 631
  • Cornwall M.C.C., 155, 259, 437
  • Coventry and Warwickshire M.C., 14, 76, 177, 258, 320, 411, 465, 577
  • Crawley M.C.C., 383
  • Crossgates and District M.C.C. 258, 491
  • Cumberland County M.C.C.,410, 491.631, 689, 72o
  • Daimler M.C.C., 521
  • Derby and District M.C.C., 76, 155, 206. 259, 550, 551, 631, 633
  • Derbyshire and North Staffordshire A.C., 206, 467, 521, 579
  • Doncaster and District M.C.C., 258, 467, 550
  • Dublin and District M.C.C.. 14, 128, 411, 436, 490, 577. 633. 660, 725
  • Dundee and District M.C.C., 604
  • Durham and District M.C.C., 259
  • Edinburgh and District M.C., 631
  • Essex M.C., 96, 177, 206, 232, 382, 383, 466, 491, 548, 660
  • Evesham M.C., 605
  • Exeter and District M.C.C., 605
  • Finsbury Park C.C. (M.C. Section), 14, 76, 321, 355. 661
  • Fleet M.C.C., 392
  • Foieshill and District M.C.C., 285, 490
  • Fulham and District M.C.C., 551
  • Furness M.C.C., 154, 661
  • GlasgowM.C.C., 47, 176, 232, 436
  • Gloucester M.C.C., 176
  • Grosvenor M.C.C., 96, 207, 725
  • Halifax and District M.C.C., 128, 355
  • Hamilton and District M.C.C., 97, 466, 605
  • Hampshire M.C.U., 259, 383, 660
  • Hampstead C. and M.C., 285, 436
  • Hants M.C. Union, 578
  • Harrogate and District M.C.C., 128, 154, 354, 383, 491, 549, 632, 725
  • Haslingden M.C.C., 17 7, 206
  • Haverstock M.C.C., 176, 689
  • Herefordshire M.C.C., 177, 465
  • Herts County A.C., 177, 284, 285, 355, 382, 491, 577
  • — A. and Ae.C., 725
  • Huddersfield and District A.C.C., 128
  • Hull and East Riding A.C.C., 176, 320, 521
  • Hunslet M.C.C., 383, 604
  • llkley and District M.C.C., 76, 320, 577, 725
  • Ipswich and District M.C.C., 76, 154, 466, 549
  • Isle of Wight M.C.C., 320 Kidderminster M.C.C., 605
  • Kildare M.C.C., 383
  • Kingston and District M.C.C., 321, 466
  • Leeds M.C.C., 321, 520
  • Legal M.C.C., 128
  • Leicester and District M.C.C., 155, 259, 354
  • Leven and District M.C.C., 579
  • Lincolnshire A.C., 383, 437, 661
  • Liverpool A.C.C., 128, 259, 354
  • Llanelly and District M.C.C., 259, 320
  • Lowestoft M.C.C., 520, 660
  • Luton and South Bedfordshire M.C.C., 521
  • Maidenhead' and District M.C.C., 207, , x 232, 320
  • Manchester Amateur M.C.C., 259, 321, 491
  • — M.C., 97, 155, 354, 410, 577, 661
  • — Wednesday M. and C.C.? 688
  • Merionethshire M.C.C., 437, 465. 604, 725
  • Mersey M.C., 77. 177, 258, 284, 354, 382, 436, 466, 578, 60 1, 632
  • Merthyr M.C., 465
  • Mid Bucks M.C.C., 206
  • Middlesbrough and District M.C.C., 76. 154, 382, 383. 491, 689
  • Motor C. Union of Ireland (Ulster Centre), 128, 410, 467, 660, 688
  • — Cycling Club, 96, 207. 383. 41 1, 491
  • Nelson and District M.C.. 76, 17 7, 604
  • Newcastle and District M.C., 1 4, 76. 7 7, 383, 604
  • Newport M.C.C., 47, 154, 354, 465
  • — (Mon.) M.C., 725 Norfolk M.C.C., 285, 579
  • North Birmingham M.C., 176, 232
  • — Eastern A.A. and Bishop Auckland,
  • Darlington, and District M.C., 579
  • — Middlesex M.C.C.. 47. 155, 259, 285, 465, 490, 551. 579, 660
  • — Staffordshire M.C.C., 259, 383, 436, 548, 661
  • North-west London M.C.C., 47, 76, 206, 437, 490, 521, 604
  • Northamptonshire M.C.C., 604
  • Nottingham and District M.C.C., 96, 465, 548
  • Oldham and District M.C.C., 155
  • Otago M.C.C. (New Zealand), 258
  • Oxford M.C.C., 47, 128, 206. 233, 259, 284
  • Pontefract M.C.. 176, 465, 466, 577, 688
  • Portsmouth and District M.C., 321, 465
  • Preston and District M.C.C., 14
  • Purley and District M.C.C., 96, 97, 154, 155, 233. 321. 466, 551. 604, 631, 689
  • Putney and District M.C.C., 128, 354, 551 689
  • Reading and District M.C.C., 232, 285
  • Redditch and District M.C.C., 232, 284, 467,-520
  • Ripon and District M.C.C.. 285
  • Rotherham and District M.C.C., 176, 232 689
  • Salford M.C.C., 206
  • Sarum and District M.C.C., 631
  • Scarborough and District M.C.C., 128, 258, 577, 579, 632
  • — M.C., 688
  • Sheffield and Hallamshire M.C.C., 14, 76, 128, 176, 258, 411, 520, 521. 577, 725
  • — University M.C.C., 549
  • South Birmingham M.C.C., 76, 155, 285, 436, 467, 521. 579, 689
  • South-east London M.C.C., 232
  • Southampton and District M.C., 207
  • Southsea M.C.C., 258
  • Stockport and District M.C.C., 689
  • Streatham and District M.C.C., 47, 76, 285, 465, 490, 550, 725
  • Stroud and District M.C.C., 661
  • Surrey M.C.C., 47, 96, 207, 285, 382, 383, 436, 491, 578, 661
  • Sussex M.C.C., 96, 155, 321
  • Sutton Coldfield A.C., 14, 96, 355, 436
  • Sydney (N.S.W.) M.C.C., 605
  • Taunton and District M.C.C., 232, 411, 520, 550, 725
  • Torbay and District M.C.C., 410, 632
  • Wakefield and District M.C.C., 206, 355
  • Walthamstow M.C., 177, 354, 382. 436, 548, 579, 605, 661
  • Wansbeck M.C.C., 233, 689
  • Wath and District M.C., 14, 725
  • West Australian M.C.C. (Perth), 47
  • — Essex A.C., 76
  • Western District M.C. (London), 76, 155, 176, 232, 284, 320, 383, 437, 465, 491, 520, 631, 725
  • Westmorland M.C.C., 206, 355, 466, 548, 577, 688, 725
  • Wigan M.C., 128, 285, 578, 688
  • Willesden Green C. and M.C.C., 577
  • Wimbledon M.C.C., 77, 128, 154, 550
  • Winchester and District M.C.C., 76
  • Wishaw and District M. and M.C.C., 467, 604, 432, 689
  • Wolverhampton M.C.C., 47, 128, 154, 155, 354, 41 1, 466
  • Woolwich, Plumstead, and District M.C., 232, 284, 382, 383
  • Worksop and District M.C.C., 206
  • Yeovil and District M.C.C., 155
  • York County M.C.C., 57 7
  • Club Prize Funds, Contributions to, 237
  • Clutch Control Fixing, 639
  • Clutches, Care of, 533
  • — M.R Trial of, 242
  • — Use of, 364
  • Clutches, Variable Gears and, 272, 343
  • Coal Strike, Episodes of the, 419, 453, 454
  • Cold Vulcanising, 321, 424
  • Collapsable Boat? Mounted on Sidecars, 646
  • Collier, Mr. H., Sen., Chat with, 80
  • — My Most Exciting Ride, 555
  • Commercial Travellers, Motor Cycle for, 264
  • Competitions, 1912, 81
  • Compression Gauges, 20
  • — increased by Longer Piston, 28
  • — Ratio. 360, 453
  • — Variable, 690
  • Contact Breakers—
  • — Bosch, for High-speed Engines, 332
  • — Removing, 413
  • — Sparking at, 413
  • — Sticking of Arm, 162 Continent, Tour on the, 65
  • Cost of Running a Motor Cycle, 5, 33, 64, 131, 216, 241, 272, 356, 420
  • Coupe Hanriot, Won by Vernon Taylor, 626
  • Coventry and Warwickshire M.C.— w
  • — Boy Scout Manoeuvre, 224
  • — Scouts versus, 489, 568
  • — Open Reliability Trial, 250, 380, 426, 486, 490, 516, 547, 556
  • — Photograph, 26
  • — Sidecar Trial, 350 Welsh Run, 628
  • Crank Pin Bearing Design, 152 Crankshaft, Counter-shaft or, 115
  • Cressage Toll Bridge, 171
  • Cricket Ball, Accident caused by. 561
  • Crouch Carette, 6 h.p., for use in Scotland, 22

CURRENT CHAT

  • — America—
  • — International Motor Cycle Race in, 66
  • Records,225
  • Road Race in, 121
  • American Motor Sledge, 173 Arms Hill, Attraction of, 196
  • — — Climbing of, 173
  • Australia—
  • Motor Cycling in, 400
  • Records, 40, 277
  • Reliability Trial, 276
  • Auto Cycle Club de France, 12, 573
  • Automobile (Hub of France and the, 173
  • Circuit de Paris, 312, 353, 379 Easter Trial, 277
  • Hill-climb, 146, 172
  • Auto Cycle Union—
  • Annual Dinner, 40
  • Competitions Committee, 457
  • Judges, 513
  • Notes, 4.1, 104, 121, 172, 224, 352, 379
  • Protest against Awards in Sutton Coldfield A.C. Trial, 40
  • Silencer Trials, 513
  • Six Days’ Trials, Prizes in the, 147
  • Spring Trial, Muddle in, 250
  • Tourist Trophy Race Fund., 313
  • Trade and, 251
  • Automobile Club de Seine et Oise—Le Mans Meeting, 513, 545, 600
  • Beach Racing in Yorkshire, 65
  • Belgian Motor Cycle Show, 224
  • Trial, 399, 429
  • “ Bicycle Luge,” New Form of Winter
  • Sport, 65
  • Birmingham M.C.C.—
  • Birmingham to York and Back, 40
  • Passenger Trial, 40
  • Reliability Trial, 722
  • Bristol M.C.C. Reliability Trial to Porlock, 573
  • British Automobile Racing Club Meeting, 723
  • — .Motor Racing Club. See that title.
  • Brooklands. Six Days’ Trials and 41 65
  • Br{\°kda4e M.C.C Hill-climbing ’and Reliability Trial, 683
  • — War Office Tests at, 353
  • — for Berlin, A, 66
  • Canadian Motor Cyclists’ Association, 599
  • Ceylon, Hill-climb in, 103
  • Championship Hill-climb in N.S.W., 120
  • Chest Pads for Racing, 172
  • Circuit du Rhone (1912), 104
  • Collier, C. R., 13, 146
  • Competitions, 12
  • Coventry and Warwickshire MC.— Boy Scout Manoeuvre. 224
  • Open Reliability Trial, 250, 486
  • Cut-outs abolished, 66
  • Cyclecars. See that title.
  • Experimental, with Double Engines, 72^3
  • Records, 683
  • Cyclists’ Touring Club Circular Tour, 485
  • De Rosier, Jake, Serious Accident, 353
  • Derbyshire, Winter Trial in, 103
  • Dieppe or Douglas, 65
  • Dinas Mawddwy, 682, 722
  • First Sidecar up, 656
  • Doncaster and District M.C.C. Reliability Trial 625
  • Dublin’Reliability Trial, 512
  • Engine Power, Increasing, 147
  • English-Dutch Reliability Trial, 13, 66, 121, 250, 313, 512, 656, 683
  • Exeter to Penzance and Back, 103
  • Experiments with Hydrogen Peroxide, 120
  • Federation Internationale des Clubs Motocylistes, 399
  • First Motor Cycle Race, 486
  • France, Number of Motor Cycles in, 13
  • French Clubs, Amalgamation of, 546
  • — Trials, 12, 40, 65, 66, 103
  • Gears, Three-speed Counter-shaft. 250
  • Gilmour, Mr. D. G., The Late, 197
  • Globe-girdlers on Motor Cycles, 66
  • Grand Prix of the A.C.C.F., 429, 599
  • Hammersmith Speed Limit, Application refused, 546
  • Herts County A.C., 485
  • Open Reliability Trial, 12, 41, 66
  • Suggested Passenger Trial, 13
  • Hill-climb in Leicestershire, 456
  • New Zealand, 196
  • — on Snaefell, 379
  • Hill-climbing. See that title.
  • Holland, Motor Cycle in, 575
  • Honister,Pass, 250
  • Hotel-keepers and Motor Cyclisis, 65
  • Illumination of Number-plates, 66
  • Illuminating the Identification Plate, 683
  • Imports and Exports, 172, 276, 545, 657
  • Inter-club Hill-climb at Oakamoor, 625
  • Inter-team Trial in Surrey, 173
  • Inter-’Varsity Hill-climb, 512
  • Invitation Trial in Yorkshire, 12, 41
  • Isle of Man, Trip to the, 682
  • Italian Grand Prix, 656
  • Jake de Rosier Fund, 723
  • Liability of Road Authorities, 66
  • Limousine Body suggested, 225
  • Liverpool A.C.C. at Dinas Mawddwy, 722
  • Local Government Board and the Noise of Motor Cycles, 251
  • London County Council, Two Guineas Costs against the, 251
  • Long, Harry, 20,000 Miles on a Singer Sidecar, 546
  • Lyons M.C.C. See that title.
  • Military Motor Cyclists, 103, 276, 513
  • Mobilisation Scheme, 546, 600
  • Monster Motor Cycle, 197
  • Moorhouse, Mr. A. J. See that title.
  • Memorial Fund, 722
  • M.C.C. de France—
  • Annual Reunion, 40
  • Hill-climb, 277
  • Motor Cycle in Johannesburg, 573 on the Stage, 251
  • Paced Races at Easter, 312
  • Tours in Sweden, 277
  • Union of Ireland, 513
  • — Cycles Registered in London, 277
  • — Cycling Club—
  • Annual General Meeting, 13
  • Continental Tour, 147
  • Exeter Run, 41
  • Silver Medal Winners in the, 65
  • Fourth Race Meeting, 722
  • Reader’s View of the, 40
  • Inter-team Trial, 599
  • Land’s End Run, 3P2, 353
  • London-Edinburgh Run, 120, 429, 545
  • Team Competition, 457. 512
  • Team Trial, 683
  • Motor Cyclist v. Roller Skater, 172
  • — Cyclists’ Progressive Association, 197, 225
  • Necessity is the Mother of Invention, 173
  • New South Wales, Caves Hill Climbed,
  • — 4. „ • 120
  • Motor Cycling in, 352
  • — Speed Limits, 251
  • — T.T-. Regulations, 457
  • — Zealand, Racing in, 196, 512
  • North -west London M.C.C. See that title.
  • London-Coventry Trial, Results, 624
  • Notable Hill-climbing Feats, 624
  • Number of Motor Cycles, 40, 66
  • Oakamoor, Hill-climbing in Paiis at, 353
  • O’Donovan, Mrs. D. R., Fatal Accident, 225
  • Olympia Show, T.T. Entrants and the, 546
  • Oxford M.C.C., 196
  • Paris Show, 486, 575
  • Petrol Consumption, 573
  • Test, 546
  • Post Office Motor Cycles for Melbourne, 353
  • Proposed Speed Limit at Hammersmith,
  • - 173 Records, 41, 147, 277, 352, 573, 575, 600, 625
  • Red Rear Lights, 173, 277
  • Royal Automobile Club—
  • Illuminated Speed Limit Signs, 197
  • Obstruction by Tramcars, 378
  • Touring Guides, 4 56
  • Warning Signs, 573
  • R.I.A. Activities, 197, 251*
  • Scottish Auto Cycle Union, 429, 599
  • — Six Days’ Trials, 723
  • Sidecar Counter-shaft Transmission, 575
  • — Records, 400
  • Side Lamps for Sidecars, 657
  • Six Days’ Trials. See Auto Cycle Union.
  • South Africa, Motor Cycles in, 513
  • Road Race in, 723
  • — Australian Speed Trial. 456
  • — Birmingham M.C.C., Novices’ Trial
  • — Are they Desirable, 148
  • — Local Government Board and, 185, 187
  • Cycle Passenger Attachments, 167, 271
  • Cyclecars, 225, 365, 369, 392, 575, 710
  • Arden, 586
  • Autocrat. 269
  • — Design of, 270. 396, 725
  • — Four-cylindered, 452
  • Glover, 668
  • — G.W.K., 249
  • Gordon 8 h.p., 421
  • — Night Ride in the Low Cyclecar, 298
  • Sabella, 286
  • — Two-wheeled, 636
  • — Three and Four-wheeled, 247, 308, 422, 455, 508
  • Cylinders—
  • — Cleaning, 732
  • — Decarbonising, 145
  • — Discoloured, 532 . _
  • — Exhaust Lifter, Result when raised, 522
  • — Formula for finding Cubical Capacity, 2 85
  • Cyclists Touring Club, Circular Tour, 486
  • Cyclometer Transmission, 535
  • Daimler Agricultural Tractor, 413
  • Daventry, Mobilisation Day at, 483
  • Davies, B. H., Motor Cycling in 2000 A.D. 708
  • Decompressor, Criticism of the. 696
  • Decompressors, 288, 552, 556, 560, 580
  • De Dion Quad, Converted, 137
  • De Rosier, Jake, 197, 353, 513
  • Derby and District M.C.C. Inter-club- Hill-climb, 625
  • — N. Staffs. A.O. Inter-club Hill-climb, 625
  • Derbyshire, Sidecar Machine for, 79
  • — Winter Trial in, 103
  • Devon, Road Dangers m, 369
  • — Sidecar for, 208 Differential, Slipping, 184
  • Dinas Mawddwy Climbed on a Sidecar, 722, 724
  • — Climbing of, 649
  • — First Sidecar up, 656
  • Doncaster and District M.C.C. Reliability Trial, 625
  • Downie, Miss, Photographs, 292
  • Drury. Nellie. Photograph, 25
  • Dry Cells, Coils and, 235
  • — Testing, 287
  • — Trembler Coils and, 261
  • Dublin and District M.C.C.—
  • — All-day Open Trial, 678
  • Dublin to Lisburn and Back, 603
  • — Hill-climb, 316
  • — Racing at Portmarnock, 489, 548
  • — Reliability Trial, 426, 512, 514
  • — v. Belfast. See Motor Cycle Union of Ireland.
  • Dungeon Ghyll, Climbing, 423
  • Dust Prevention, 247
  • Eagle Motor Cycle, 99, 459
  • Edge Hill. Climbing, 214, 506, 703
  • Edinburgh and District M.C. Open Hillclimb, 547
  • — Ango-Scottish Hill-climb, 628-
  • Electric Lighting for Motor Cyclists, 178, 179, 188, 189, 273
  • Engine Lubrication, 580

Engines—

  • Air-cooled, and Low Temperature, 646-
  • Bushes of, 606
  • Chater-Lea, 199
  • Evolution of Timing, 256, 273
  • Forman, 529
  • Free, in Important Trials, 185
  • Future of Design, 239
  • General Improvement in 1912, 187
  • Inclined, 148. 170, 195, 222, 245, 273, 370-
  • Incomplete Fourth Stroke, 615
  • Increasing the Engine Power, 147
  • Ingenious Pressure-fed, 223
  • Inlet Valve Opening, 523
  • Large Single-cylinder, 234
  • Noble Precision, 199
  • Novel Slide Valve, 418
  • Position, 142
  • — Inclined v. Vertical, 82
  • Radiator Fins on V Twin, 192
  • Singer Racing, 393
  • Slide Valve Engine without Gear Wheels, 95
  • Starting, by Pulling up Rear Wheel, 417
  • Stiff, 690
  • Testing the Power, 296, 339
  • Twin-cylinder, 642
  • Two-cycle, 78
  • Two-stroke, 108, 109, 110, 143, 169, 221,. 283, 333, 371, 386, 60S
  • A.C.U. Formula and, 270, 343
  • Flywheel Construction, 236
  • When to have Re-bushed, 385
  • English-Dutch Reliability Trial, 4, 48, 106, 121, 144, 150, 174, 196, 229, 230, 250, 313, 388, 447, 512, 656, 683, 704
  • British Teams, 623
  • English Single Figure Gradients, 338
  • Essex M.C.—
  • — Annual Dinner, 177
  • — Open Hill-climb, 275, 317
  • Excelsior, Trial of the, 643
  • Exeter and District M.C.C., Round the Coast of Devon and Cornwall, 721
  • Exhaust Gases, Cooling the, 100, 221
  • — Injecting Air into, 273
  • — Timing, 662
  • — Pipe, 139
  • — Petrol Leakage on to, 235
  • "Exhaust Pipe, Radiators on, 260
  • — Valve, Cooling the, 193 Timing, 330
  • — Whistle 608
  • Exmoor, A Week-end Exploring,'705
  • Federation Internationale des Clubs Motocyclistes, 399
  • Flywheels, Connecting Rod Touching, 691
  • — Inside or Outside, 238, 507, 567
  • F.N. Model, 724
  • Foot, Control, Adjustable, 390 ?
  • Foot-starters, 59-62, 111, 234, 270 — Bat, 214
  • — Half Compression and, 140
  • Footrests, Value of Two-piece, 448
  • Fork Design, Steering, 639
  • Forman Engine, 529
  • Four-cylinder Machines, 89, 116
  • — Magneto Timing on, 286
  • Frame Design, 282
  • France, Motor Cycle Pastime and Industry in, 334, 336
  • French View of the Motor Cycle, 252, 308
  • G. and G. Belt Shield, 181
  • G.H. Gear, Counter-shaft, Two-speed, 630
  • G.W.K. Cyclecar, 249
  • — Trial Run on a, 612
  • Gear Controls, Stripped Threads on, 556
  • — Teeth, Brittle, 440
  • Gears
  • — Ariel. 640
  • — Counter-shaft, Two-speed, 139, 630
  • — Horse-power and, 523
  • — Hub and Counter-shaft, 617, 649, 675
  • — Interesting Development, 84
  • Lincoln-Elk Two-speed, 495
  • — Multi-speed Hub Design, 668
  • — Oiling Engine-shaft, 476, 533
  • — Pedal Control of the Brown and Kingston, 62
  • — Prestwick Variable, 156
  • — Simplex Two-speed Hub, 283
  • — Three-speed Counter-shaft, 250
  • — Hubs, Sideslip and, 668
  • — Two-speed Counter-shaft, 552
  • — Use of, 208
  • — Use of, 384
  • — Variable, 462, 469
  • — Brampton, 610
  • — Choice of, 30
  • — Clutches and, 272, 343
  • — Experimental Work in, 398
  • For Sidecar Work, 475
  • How they are made, 242
  • Matchless, 332
  • Motor Cycles and, How to Use, 127
  • Trial of the Rudge Multi, 446
  • Tritton, 316
  • Generator Holder, 80
  • Generators, Lux, 501
  • — Thawing, 173, 195, 222, 247, 273, 310
  • Germany, Motor Cycle in, 240
  • — Touring in, 476
  • Gillett, Fred, Balbus and his Wall, 694
  • Gilmour, Mr. D. G., The Late, 197
  • Glasgow M.C.C., Open Hill-climb, 515
  • Glover Sidecar, 669
  • — Spider Quad, 149
  • Godfrey, O. C., My Most Exciting Ride, 613
  • Grand Prix de Champagne, 626
  • Great North Road, Police Traps on the, 561
  • Grip, New Twisting, 470
  • Gudgeon Pin Fixing, 184
  • Hamilton V Twin, Intermittent Running, 477
  • Hammersmith, Proposed Speed Limit at, 173
  • Hammett, Miss Rose, Photograph, 292
  • Handle-bars, Standardisation of, 611
  • Harrogate and District M.C.C.—
  • Herts County A. and A.C. and Inter-club Hill-climb at Easter, 351, 352
  • Hill-climb at Leathley Bank, 402
  • — Winter Trial, 23
  • Head, L. V., Photograph, 287
  • Head Lights, Anti-glare Attachment for, 123
  • Healy, J., Two Thousand Miles in Six Days on Irish Roads, 374
  • Hercules-Precision, 450
  • Herts County A.C.—
  • — Annual Dinner, 77
  • Harrogate and District M.C.C. and Interclub Hill-climb at Easter, 351, 352
  • Hill-climb at Leath ley Bank, 402
  • — Intel-team Reliability Trial, 408
  • — Motor Cycle Section, Control of, 485
  • — Open Reliability Trial, 12, 41, 66, 91, 131
  • — Second Open Trial, 346
  • High-speed Passenger Reliability Trial, 58
  • Hill-climbing, 25, 49, 73, 102, 119, 120, 167, ? 196, 221, 246, 369. 379, 456 499, 537, 565, 600
  • — Damage to Hedges at Hill-climbs, 591
  • Dinas Mawddwy Climbed, Steepest Hill in Wales, 628
  • — Edge Hill, 7 03
  • — Formula', 468, 554
  • Glut of Open Hill-climbs, 581, 609, 613, 728
  • — “ Spion Kop,” Paignton, 624
  • — Stoneleigh, 624
  • — Waning Interest in, 637
  • Hills-
  • English Single. Figure Gradients, 338
  • Steepest in England, 27
  • Test Hill for Metropolitan Riders, 124
  • Trembler Coils on, 234
  • Hiring on a Sunday, 90
  • Holiday Rides, 553
  • Holland, Motor Cycle in, 575
  • Honister Pass, Climbing, 25, 49, 73, 167, 221, 250, 277-80, 299, 302, 314, 343, 371
  • — Dangers of, 313
  • Equipments used, 332 Horse-power, Gears and, 523
  • — Nominal, of Motor Cycles, 63. 100, 221
  • — Rating, 79
  • Hounslow to Hook, Poem, by Fred Gillett, 119
  • Hub Clutches, 184
  • — D.H.K.. 236
  • — Fitting, without Alteration to Frame, 209
  • Hubs, Three-speed, Design of, 503
  • Humber Twin, 363, 385
  • Hydrogen Peroxide, 244, 245
  • — Experiments with, 98, 119, 120, 144, 170 I
  • Ignition, Carburetter and, 606
  • — Control, 412
  • — Timing, 47 7
  • Imports and Exports, 48, 172, 276, 545, 657
  • Incomplete Fourth Stroke, 615
  • India, Motor Cycle in, 675
  • — Sidecar for, 441
  • — Two-stroke for, 441
  • Insurance, Few Points on Motor Cycle, by Douglas Leechman, 182, 183
  • Intermittent Running, 560
  • International Competition, 171
  • Ireland, Motoring in, 210
  • — Sidecar Tour in, 158
  • — Single and Twin Machines, 672
  • — Speed and Reliability Trials in, 514
  • — Speed Limits in, 400
  • — The Tax in, 385
  • Iridium Points, 731
  • Irish Motor Cycle Union, 316, 513, 514
  • Isle of Man, Hill-climb, 439. See also T.T. Races.
  • — Trip to the, 682
  • Jake de Rosier Fund, 696, 723
  • Japan, In, with a Sociable, 729
  • J.P. Tyre and Belt, 181
  • Johannesburg, Motor Cycle in, 573
  • Kadugannawa Pass, 647
  • Kew and Richmond, Road Conditions between, 621, 469, 726
  • Keyzer, Arnold, Reliability Trial of Cape Peninsula M.C.C., 672
  • Knocksaughey Hill, Gradient of, 492
  • “ Knuts.” Warning to the, 556
  • Ladies’ Heavyweight, Run on a, 303
  • — Should they Race ? 421, 647, 676, 726, 727
  • Lady Novice’s Trip to Newcastle, 697
  • Lady Motor Cyclists—
  • Leggings for, 358
  • Mackintosh Costume, 358 .
  • Should they be Allowed to Race ? 55M
  • Lady’s Point of View, The Motor Cycle from a, 291
  • Lamb’s Detachable Wheel, 180
  • Lamp Generator, Stealing Water for the, 51
  • Lamps, Handy Blow, 589
  • — Lenses and, 89
  • — Miniature Inspection, 181
  • — Winter Riding and, 49
  • Launceston, Norman Gateway at, 191

LEADERETTES—

  • British Motor Cycles in Canada, 471
  • Competitions (1912), 81
  • Consumption Comparisons, 263
  • Contributions to Club Prize Funds, 237
  • Cost of Production, 1
  • Cut-outs, Abolition of, 55
  • — Local Government Board and, 185
  • Development of the Modern Light¬weight, 609
  • Free Engines in Important Trials, 185
  • Future of the A.C.U., 387
  • Glut of Open Hill-climbs, 581, 609
  • Holiday Rides, 553
  • Lights on Sidecars, 387
  • Manufacturers’ Commendable Decision,
  • Mobilisation Scheme, 359
  • Modern Hill-climbs, 499
  • Motor Cycle Taxation, 4 43, 525
  • — Cyclists’ Progressive Association, 171
  • Number-plates, 333
  • Overloading, 665
  • Power for Sidecar Work, 581
  • Should Ladies be allowed to Race ? See Ladies.
  • The Open Road, 289
  • Tourist Trophy Race, 1912, 29, 81, 107, 471
  • Standard Machines in the, 693
  • — —- — Trade and the, 211
  • Two-stroke Engines, 333
  • Unofficial Records, 415. 443
  • Waning Interest in Hill-climbs, 637
  • Weight Definition, 525
  • Winter Runs, 1
  • Who will adopt the Quadcar ? 133
  • Leathley Bank, Hill-climb at, 402
  • — Disqualifications, 454, 539
  • Leechman, Douglas, Few Points on Motor Cycle insurance, 182, 183
  • Legion of Motor Cyclists, 602
  • Leeds Motor Cycle, New Engine with Decompressor, 680
  • Leicester and District M.C.—
  • Hill-climb, 456
  • Motor Cycle Show, 180
  • Tour of the Rudge Works, 515

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR—

  • Air-cooled Engines and Low Temperatures, 646
  • Agency Question, 271, 341
  • All-weather Motor Cycle, 193
  • Are Open Hill-climbs being Overdone ? 493
  • Ashford, Dangerous Corner at, 51
  • Australian Engineer’s Mount, 246
  • Auto Cycle Union—
  • Formula, Two-stroke Engines and, 343, 371, 422
  • Motor Cyclists’ Progressive Association and, 248, 272, 341, 398
  • One Day Trial, 273, 341
  • Six Days’ Trials, 271
  • Trials, Regulations, 170
  • Auxiliary Sidecar Coupling, 245
  • Badges, How to Exhibit, 119, 141, 193, 245, 270
  • Ball and Plain Bearings, 272
  • Belt Tightening Tip, 396
  • Brooklands Easter Meeting, 424
  • — War Office Test at, 143, 155, 167
  • Cap Throwing Danger, 591 Carburetter Design, 537
  • Clashing of Dates, 455 492, 509
  • Carrying a Camera, 492, 507
  • Clean Counties, 143
  • Local Taxation Licences and, 74, 101
  • Clutches and Variable Gears, 272, 343
  • Cold Vulcanising, 424
  • Collapsable Boat mounted on a Sidecar,
  • Competitions, Suggestion regarding, 537
  • Compression Ratio, 453
  • Continental Touring, Duty on Sidecars, 728
  • Converted High Frame, 397
  • Cooling the Exhaust Gases, 100, 221
  • * Valve, 193
  • Cost of Motor Cycling, 272
  • Criticism of a New Design, 566
  • Cut-outs, Proposed Abolition of, 25, 73, 119
  • Cycle Passenger Attachments, 167, 271
  • Cyclecar Design, 726
  • Cyclecars, 369
  • Design of, 222, 270, 396
  • Three and Four-wheeled, 508
  • Damage to Hedges at Hill-climbs, 591
  • Danger of Uncontrolled Dogs, 565, 618, 676, 726
  • — cf Running Backwards on a Hill, 537, 566
  • Dangerous Driving, 646, 67 7
  • Dinas Mawddwy Climbed, 649
  • Disqualifications at Leathley Bank, 454
  • Do Records Appeal to Buyers ? 117
  • Driving in Traffic, 219
  • Dungeon Ghyll, Climbing, 369, 423
  • Dust Nuisance, 247
  • Electric Lighting for Motor Cycles, 273
  • Engine Position, 142
  • — Revolutions, Calculating, 396
  • English-Dutch Trial, 144
  • Episode of the Coal Strike, 454
  • Evolution of Engine Timing, 273
  • Transmission, 51, 75, 144, 170
  • Experiences in Southern Nigeria, 118
  • — of the R.I.C., 118, 167, 168
  • Experimental Work in Variable Geais, 398
  • Fifteen Miles with a Broken Valve, 618
  • Freeing of Seized Pistons, Drastic
  • Methods, 141 Foot-starters, - 270
  • French View of the Motor Cycle, 308
  • Generators, Thawing, 195. 222, 247, 273, 310
  • Glut of Open Hill-climbs, 728
  • Gradient of Knocksaughey Hill, 492
  • Handicapping Club Competitions, 25 Heavy Trio, 219
  • High-speed Passenger Trial, 102
  • Hill-climb on Snaefell, 422
  • Hill-climbing, 25, 49, 73, 102, 119, 167, 221, 246, 369, 537, 565
  • Holyhead Road, 676
  • — — at Cor wen, 507
  • Honister Pass, Climbing, 343, 371
  • Horse-power Rating, 75
  • Hub and Countershaft Gears, 649, 675
  • Hydrogen Peroxide, 119, 144, 170 245, 307
  • Ideal Military Motor Cycle, 245
  • Improvised Variable Pulley Gear, 307
  • Improving Mackintosh Leggings, 621
  • Inclined Engines, 170, 195, 222, 245, 273, 370
  • India, Motor Cycle in, 675
  • Inside or Outside Flywheels, 507, 567
  • Injecting Air into Exhaust Gases, 273
  • Kadugannawa Pass, 647
  • Kew and Richmond, Road Conditions between, 649, 726
  • Ladies, Should they Race ? 676, 726, 727
  • Lamp Generator, “ Stealing ” Water for the, 51
  • Lamps and Winter Riding, 49
  • Lancashire Clubs and Competitions, 310, 343
  • Leathley Bank, Disqualifications at, 539
  • Licences, Clean Counties and, 308
  • — Issue of, by Foreign Country, 270
  • Lightweights and Sidecars, 537
  • — Long Tour in, 453
  • Liverpool A.C.C., April Trial, 494
  • Local Taxation Licences, 24, 25, 49, 50
  • London-Edinburgh Run, 67 7
  • Lubrication Systems, 26, 51, 72, 142, 195, 507
  • Magneto Experience, 620
  • Manufacturers’ Union and Misleading Advertisements, 141
  • Military Motor Cyclists, 308
  • Mobilisation Scheme, 593
  • Moorhouse, Mr. A. J. See that title.
  • Motor Cycles and Theatricals, 100
  • — Cycling Club—
  • London-Edinburgh Run, 677
  • London-Exeter Run, 74
  • Silencer Trials, 341
  • — Cycle Taxation, 591
  • — Cycling Progressive Association and
  • — trade-assisted Riders, 308
  • Multi-pole Sparking Plugs, 24, 50, 74: 102, 118, 143, 169, 220, 248
  • Nominal Horse-power of Motor Cycles, 100, 221
  • Novel Sidecar Body, 648
  • Number-plates, Correct Position of, 307
  • Passenger Machine Design, 117 Perished Air Tubes, 508
  • Peroxide of Hydrogen in Acetylene Generators, 396, 453
  • Petrol Consumption, 620, 646, 677, 728
  • — Price of, 677
  • Comparisons, 309, 342, 370, 397, 424, 454, 493, 508
  • Pillion Seats, 247, 271, 307, 343, 398, 422, 455, 494, 565
  • Postal Work, Motor Cycle for, 50
  • Power required for Sidecar Work, 618, 620, 648, 727
  • Price of Motor Cycles, 728
  • Private Owners and Trade Riders, Suggestions, 423, 455
  • “ Pro Bono Publico,” 619
  • Problem of the Automatic Carburetter, 509, 538, 565, 592, 593, 618, 648, 676
  • Proposed Silencer Trial, 73
  • Provincial Shows, Are they Wanted ? 102
  • Pulleys, Method of Truing Worn, 141 Punctures, 592
  • Quadcars, Runabouts and, Definition of, 169
  • — Simple Form of, 194, 270
  • — Who will Adopt ? 169, 193
  • Rejuvenating Old Pattern Machines, 494
  • Riding Conditions in New Zealand, 728
  • Road Conditions between Kew arid Richmond, 621
  • — Dangers in Devon, 369
  • Records, 72, 492, 538
  • Red Rear Lights in Hampshire, 270
  • Routes, Daventry to South wold, 117
  • — Salisbury to Exeter, 675. For other
  • Routes see that title.
  • Royal Automobile Club—
  • Road Guides, Proposed, 193, 220, 221
  • Warning Signs, 310
  • Second-hand Sales, Suggestion for, 26
  • Sheffield and Hallamshire M.C.C., Affiliation and the, 195
  • Should Ladies Race ? 553, 593, 621, 647
  • Sidecar and the Coal Strike, 453
  • — Licence for, 50
  • — Taxation in Scotland, 507
  • — Work, Power required for, 591, 592
  • Sideslip, How to Prevent, 25, 100 Silence, 144, 170
  • — Silencers and, 72, 102, 219
  • Silencers in the Big Trials, 170, 219
  • Single-cylinder Class Limits, 308, 343
  • — Engines and Sidecars, 493
  • Six Days’ Trials, Suggested Routes for the, 168, 219
  • Southampton, Tolls and Taxes, 26
  • Speed of Motor Cycles in Leamington, 424
  • Speedometers and Wheel Sizes, 676
  • Straight, Mr. F., Resignation of, from Auto Cycle Union, 371
  • Stream-line Body on Racing Motor Cycles, 102, 119, 194
  • Succombes Hill, near Caterham, 677
  • Sutton Coldfield and Mid-Warwickshire A.C., Amateur Hill-climb, 508
  • Swiss Rain Guns, 75
  • Three and Four-wheeled Cyclecars, 247, 308, 422, 455
  • T.T. Entrants and the Olympia Show, 565
  • Tourist Trophy Race, 1912, 73, 74, 101
  • — — — Trade and the, 493, 509, 539, 566, 675
  • Transmission, Evolution of, 51, 75, 117, 144, 170, 222
  • Tricar Conversions, 591
  • Two-stroke Engines, 143, 169, 221, 371
  • A.C.U. and, 270, 310
  • Tyre Repair Hint and Other Items, 100
  • Tyres, 25, 26 —for Motor Cycles, 618
  • Tyrol and Back, 167, 195
  • Ultra Lightweight, 24
  • Variable Pulley Gear, Improvised, 246
  • Washing Shower-proof Overalls, 537
  • Waterproof Motor Cycle Clothing, 24, 50, 51, 72
  • Weak Axles on Low-priced Sidecars, 565, 618
  • Winchester, Needless Skidding Danger at, 647
  • Winter Mudguarding, 24
  • — Runs, 101, 141
  • — Trials Results, 49
  • Why not Paraffin ? 649

Licences—

  • Granting, by County in which Motorist does not Reside, 147
  • Issue, etc., 270
  • Local Taxation, 24, 25, 49, 50, 286
  • Clean Counties and, 74, 101
  • Sidecar, 469
  • Transfer of, 330. See Clean Counties.
  • Lightweights, Care of, 670
  • — Convenience of, 440
  • — Cost of Running, 356
  • — Long Distances on, 412, 453
  • — Modern Developments of, 609
  • — Trial of the Calcott, 391
  • Limousine Bodies, Suggestions, 225
  • Lincoln-Elk Motor Cycle, 235
  • Liverpool A.C.C.—
  • Interference with Competitors in the April Trial, 494
  • Open Reliability Non-stop Run, 348
  • Reliability Trial in North Wales, 434
  • Local Government Board, Noise of Motor Cycles and, 251
  • Lomax, Aubrey Manning, The Late, 395
  • London, Map showing how to Avoid, 266
  • — County Council, Two Guineas Costs against the, 251
  • — Motor Cycles Registered in, 277
  • — New Western Artery for, 201
  • — Traffic Dodging Routes across, 534
  • London-Coventry, Trial Results, 603
  • Long, Harry, 100 Miles a Day on a Sidecar, 411
  • — 20,000 Miles on a Singer Sidecar, 546
  • Low Engine, 223
  • Lubrication Systems, 26, 51, 72, 142, 195, 212, 507
  • Notes on, 269
  • Lubricators, 39
  • Lukin Carburetter, 88
  • Lycett Trophy. See Birmingham M.C.C.
  • Lyons M.C.C., Reliability Trial, Restarting Tests in, 485
  • Mackintosh Leggings, 585
  • — Improving, 621
  • Magneto-driving Mechanism, 636
  • Magnetos, 690
  • — Care of, 634
  • — Cleaning, 635
  • — Cut-outs, 330
  • — Eisemann Waterproof, 283
  • — Fitting a Switch, 52
  • — High and Low-tension, 115
  • — Low-tension, 523
  • — Misfiring Experience, 620
  • — Novel Drive, 242
  • — Oil in, 260
  • — Rocking Arm Sticking, 330, 441
  • — Timing, 27, 215
  • — Waterproof, 449
  • Mail Service, Motor Cycle in the, 362
  • “Making the Best of it,” 496, 504
  • Manchester, Stoney Brow, Climbing of, 79,
  • Marseilles M.C.—
  • — Road Race, 416
  • — Trials, 40, 312
  • Martin Automatic Exhaust Pressure Petrol
  • Feed, 702
  • Melbourne, Post Office Motor Cycles for, 353
  • Mersey M.C., Twenty-four Hours’ Trial, 510, 543
  • Metropolitan Riders, Test Hill for, 124
  • Middlesbrough and District M.C.C., Richmond Meet of Motor Cyclists, 350
  • Midland Reliability Trial, 217, 233
  • Mid-Staffs A.C., Inter-club Hill-climb, 625
  • Mid-Warwickshire A.C.—
  • — Amateur Hill-climb, 570
  • — Sutton Coldfield and, 228
  • Militaire, Novel Design of Motor Cycle, 231
  • Military Motor Cycling, 103
  • Millford Cabrio Sidecar January 25th, 1912
  • Mobilisation Scheme, 483, 546
  • — Night Manoeuvring in Surrey, 589
  • Notes, 200, 243, 366, 444, 500, 513, 531, 562, 616, 651
  • The Ideal Cycle, 245
  • Cyclists, 276, 308, 602
  • Millford Sidecar, 106
  • Milner, A., Trick Riding on a Motor Cycle, 325 326
  • Misfiring at Speed, 522
  • Mobilisation Scheme, 359, 593, 600
  • — Test, 721
  • Monster Motor Cycle, 197
  • Moorhouse, Mr. A. J.—
  • — Accident, 492
  • — Funeral, 485 . _
  • — Memorial Fund, 489, 513, 541, 573, 624, 654, 722
  • Moto Club Liegois, Reliability Trial, 399
  • Moto-Reve Clutch, 242 \ R. [
  • Motor Cycle Club de France—1 v //
  • — Annual Reunion, 40 v
  • — Circuit de l’Eure, 544
  • — Hill-climb, 277, 344
  • — Reliability Trial, 429
  • Motor Cycle Manufacturers’ Union—
  • — Restricting the number of Open Events, 637
  • — Selected Competitions to receive Support, 652
  • Motor Cycle Union of Ireland, Inter-city Reliability Trial, 631
  • Motor Cycling in 2000 A.D., 708
  • Motor Cycling Club, 96
  • — Annual General Meeting, 13, 75
  • — Continental Tour, 147
  • — Fourth Race Meeting, 722
  • — Inter-team Trial, 599
  • — Land’s End and Back Run, 252, 280, 312, 316, 353, 381, 406, 430
  • — London-Edinburgh Run, 120, 429, 486, 511, 545, 594, 643, 646, 677
  • — — Awards, 627
  • — ‘ Magna Cum Cura,” 619
  • — Members’ Hill-climb, 542
  • — Opening Run to Brighton, 351
  • — Silencer Trials, 341, 350
  • — Team Competition, 457
  • — Trial, 512, 624, 655
  • — Trial for The Motor Cycle Challenge Cup, 512. 624, 655, 678, 683
  • — Winter Run to Exeter and Back, 4, 6-10, 34, 37, 40, 41, 53, 65, 74
  • Motor Cyclists’ Progressive Association, 157, 171, 197, 315
  • — Auto Cycle Union and, 248, 272, 281, 341, 398
  • — First Meeting, 225, 231
  • — General Meeting, 641
  • — Trade-assisted Riders and, 308
  • Motor Pacing, Art of, 563
  • — Roller Skates, French Production, 201
  • Mud Flap, Back Wheel, 181
  • Mudguard Attachments, 611
  • My Most Exciting Ride, 555, 584, 613, 638
  • Myhill, A. Renfred, Some Experiments with Hydrogen Peroxide in Acetylene Generators, 98
  • Natal, New Record made in, 233
  • — Roads in, 52
  • Newcastle, Lady Novice’s Trip to, 697
  • New Machines, Choosing, 27
  • Delivery of, 142
  • — South Wales, Caves Hill Climbed. 120
  • Motor Cycling in, 352
  • — York Motor Show, 45
  • — Zealand, Motor Cycling in, 262
  • — r Racing in, 512
  • Newsome, W. F., My Most Exciting Ride, 584
  • Newspaper Distribution by Motor Cycle, 265
  • Nice, Road Race, 416
  • Noble Precision Engine, 199
  • North Staffs M.C.C., Inter-club Hillclimb, 625
  • — Wales, Sidecar Machine for, 79
  • Northern League of Motor Cyclists, Richmond Meet, 401
  • Norton Gallery, 199
  • Novice’s Queries, 79, 162
  • Number of Motor Cycles, 68
  • Number-plates, “ A ” shaped, 390
  • — Acetylene Generator and, Combined, 608
  • — Improvised, 260
  • — Position of, 307, 333
  • — Transfer of, 27, 28
  • N.W. London M.C.C.
  • — London-Coventry Trial, Results, 624
  • Open Trial to Gloucester, 21, 39
  • Passenger Trial, Raie and Refreshing Run, 614
  • — Trials, 513, 576
  • Oakamoor, Hill-climbing in Pairs at, 353, 372
  • O’Donovan, Mrs. D. R., Fatal Accident to, 225
  • — Inter-club Hill-climb, 652

OCCASIONAL COMMENTS—

  • “'A ” Shaped Number-plates, 390
  • Accessories, 639
  • Adjustable Foot Control, 390
  • — Pulleys, 639
  • America, Tourist Trophy in, 84
  • Angle of Radiating Fins, 293
  • Auto Cycle Union,-Six Days’ Reliability TPriO/ls 503
  • Automatic Carburetters, 528
  • Brooklands, Six Days’ Trial, 18
  • Camera Carrying, 640
  • Carriage of Spare Belts, 365
  • Chaperone for the Scottish Trials, 448
  • Chrome Leather for Belts, 148
  • Clutch Control Fixing, 639
  • Consumption Comparisons, 337
  • Cost of Running a Motor Cvcle, 33, 241
  • Coventry and Warwickshire M.C., One Day Trial, 556
  • Criticism of the Decompressor, 696
  • Cut-outs—
  • Are they Desirable ? 148
  • Effects of Abolishing, 58
  • Cyclecars, 267, 365
  • Decompressors, 556
  • Design of Three-speed Hubs, 503
  • Differentia] Valves, 448
  • Dissolved Acetylene for Motor Cycles, 528
  • Drilled Pulleys, 448
  • Experimental Work in Variable Gears, 293
  • Foot-starters, 111
  • Four Gold Medals Lost by Tyre Troubles, 528
  • Free Engine Refinement, 111
  • Gears for Sidecar Work, 475
  • — Interesting Development, 84
  • Handle-bar Free Engine Control and Sideslip, 58
  • High-speed Passenger Reliability Trial, 5 8
  • Hill-climbing Championship, 475
  • Inclined Engines, 148
  • Inferior Tyre Repair Outfits, 417
  • Jake de Rosier, 696
  • Light for Night Riders, 365
  • Lighting Dynamos on Motor Cycles, 215
  • Mackintosh Leggings, 585
  • Magneto Timing, 215
  • Motor Cyclists in War, 166
  • Mudguard Attachments, 611
  • Multi-speed Hub Design, 668
  • Novice’s First Machine, 417
  • Overall Leggings, Selection of, 337
  • Petrol Consumption, 585
  • Pulleys, Counter-shaft Adjustable, 611
  • Quadcars, Definition of Runabouts and, 190
  • Rear Fork Adjusters, 111
  • Saddle Design, 556
  • Scottish Six Days’ Trials, 390
  • Sensitive Carburetters, 448
  • Sideslip, How to Pievent, 33
  • Sidecar Novices, 668
  • — Tip, 355
  • Silencers in the Big Trials, 148
  • Six Days’ Trials, 696
  • Spiing Deliveries, 18
  • — Saddle-pillars, 84
  • Standardisation in 2^00 A.D., 611
  • Starting Engine by Pulling up Rear Wheel,. 417
  • — in Deep Snow, 111
  • Steady Speedometer Needles, 585
  • Steering Fork Design, 639
  • Stream-line Bodies as a Weather Protection. 166
  • Stripped Threads on Gear Controls 556
  • Tank Suggestion, 668
  • Three-speed Hubs and Sideslip, 668
  • Transmission Question, 166, 267
  • Tourist Trophy Race, Acceleration in the, 190
  • Tyre Plans for 1912, 215
  • — Tests at Last I 640
  • Value of Two-piece Footrests. 448
  • Warning to the “ Knuts,” 556
  • Waterproof Magnetos, 449
  • Waterproofs, 84
  • Wheel Bearing Lock, 390
  • Winter Trials, 58
  • Oil Pump, Automatic, 386
  • Oil-tight Joints, 413
  • Old and New Machines, Difference between, 162
  • Olympia Show, T.T. Entrants and the, 546, 565
  • One Day Trial. See A.C.U.
  • Open Road, The, 289
  • Otago M.C.C., Competitions in New Zealand, 633
  • Overall Leggings, Selection of, 337
  • Overalls, Washing Shower-proof, 537
  • Overheating, 468 .
  • — Worn Exhaust Valve Seating and, 523
  • Overloading, 665
  • Oxford M.C.C., 196
  • — Members’ Hill-climb, 344
  • Open Hill-climb, 431, 445
  • Petrol Consumption Test, 546
  • Oxford University M.C.C., Hill-climb, 274, 312,512 582,.
  • Passenger Machine Design, 117
  • Pastime and Industry in France, by Dagobert, 334, 336
  • Patch Fixer, 181

PATENTS—

  • Amac Decompressor, 552
  • Anti-vibratory Seat Support, 552
  • B. and B. Carburetter Improvement, 288
  • Belts—
  • Dunlop Improvement, 236
  • Special, 132
  • Bosch Contact Breaker for High-speed Engines, 332
  • Carburetter Throttle Mechanism, 156
  • Chain Belt, 332
  • Clutch Hub, 132
  • Decompressors, 288, 580
  • Detachable Wheel, 674
  • Engine Lubrication, 580
  • Exhaust Whistle, 608
  • Free Engine Refinement, 111
  • Hub Clutch, D.H.K., 236
  • Magneto Driving Mechanism, 636
  • Matchless Variable Gear, 332
  • Non-skid Device, 524
  • Number-plate and Acetylene Generator- Combined, 608
  • Oil Pump, Automatic, 386
  • — Tap, A Three-way, 386
  • Rear Springing. 132
  • Rollo Transmission. 674
  • Saddle Springing, 132
  • Sidecar Control, 236
  • — Improvement, 156
  • — Joint, 580, 636
  • Simple Carburetter, 524
  • Slipping Differential, 184
  • Speed Gear Transmission Adjustment,. 236
  • Spring Seat-pillar. 332
  • Sturmey-Archer Three-speed Hub, 414
  • Toolbag Attachment, 674
  • Tricycle Spring Suspension, 288
  • Two-speed Counter-shaft Gear, 552
  • Two-stroke Engine, 236, 386, 608
  • Two-wheeled Cyclecar, 636
  • Valve System. 414
  • Valves, Manufacture of Two-piece, 524
  • Variable Compression Device, 580
  • — Gear, 156
  • — Pulley Gear, 524
  • Zenith Construction, 184
  • Peel, Quaint. Street in, 163
  • Petrol Consumption 620, 646, 677, 690, 72 8
  • Comparisons, 263, 309, 337,340, 342 370, 397. 424, 454, 493, 508, 573, 585, 588
  • Test in Australia, 259
  • — Feed, Martin Automatic Exhaust Pressure, 702
  • — Level, Adjusting, 209
  • — Mixing Sulphuric Ether in, 191
  • — Price of, 67 7
  • — Tank. Suggestion, 668
  • Pillion Seats, 209, 234, 247, 271, 307, 343, 398, 422, 455, 494, 565

Pistons—

  • Design, Examples of Modern, by Ubique, 2
  • Seized, Freeing of, 141
  • Plug Case, 493
  • Plugs, Setting Points, 533
  • Polkey-Jarrott Electric Lighting System, 178 910
  • Ponette Quadcar, 140
  • Portmarnock, Racing at, 489
  • Postal Work, Motor Cycle for, 50
  • Power, Loss of. 732
  • Premier, Ladies’ Heavyweight, Run on a,
  • Price of Motor Cycles, 22, 728
  • Production, Cost of, 1
  • Puch Spring Frame Machine, 261, 536
  • Pulleys, Adjustable, 184, 611, 639
  • — Belt Slack and. 357
  • Pulleys, Drilled. 448
  • — Improvised Variable Pulley Gear, 246. 307
  • — Method of Truing Worn, 141
  • — Norton. 199
  • — Variable Gear, 524
  • Quadcars. “ Baby,” 177
  • — Definition of Runabouts and, 138. 169, 190
  • — Glove : Sidecar. 149
  • — Simple Form of, 194. 270
  • — Who will Adopt ? 133. 169. 193
  • Radiating Fins, Angle of, 293
  • — — V Twin Engines and. 192
  • Rand M.C.C.. Competition. 262
  • Rare and Refreshing Run, by Fred Gillett. 614
  • Re V Sparking Plug, 181
  • Rear Fork Adjusters, 111
  • — Springing, 132
  • Rebushing, Need of, 260
  • Records. 72, 353, 450. 573, 575. 6°-5. 724
  • — American, 225
  • — Australian Road, Beaten, 277
  • — Cyclecar. 519. 683
  • — Do they Appeal to Buyers ? 117
  • — List of, 147
  • — Melbourne to Sydney. 132
  • — Natal, 233
  • — Sidecar, 277, 400
  • — Unofficial, 415, 443, 492, 538, 541. 564. 600
  • Red Rear Lights, 270, 27 7
  • — Universal. 173
  • — Warwickshire, 173
  • Registration, 53, 162. 529
  • — For Short Periods. 28
  • — Liability and, 209
  • — Licence and, 330
  • — Low Numbers, How to Obtain, 208
  • Release Valve, Use of, 27
  • Rip Generator, Friction-driven Electric ’ Device, 189
  • Road Obstruction, 607
  • Roc Tricycle, Run on the, 240
  • Roller Skater v. Motor Cyclist, 172
  • Rollo Transmission, 67 4

ROUTES—

  • Aylesbury to Hoylake, 356
  • Baldock (Herts.) to Llandudno and Back, 412
  • Bath to Margate, 260
  • Bewdley-Swanage-Eastbourne, 7 31
  • Birmingham to Wimbledon, 286
  • Brighton to the Lakes and Back, 163
  • Bristol to the Lakes via Doncaster, 286
  • Brondesbury, N.W., to Tonbridge, 663
  • Burton-on-Trent to Portsmouth, 28
  • Cambridge to Marlborough, 561
  • Cardiff to Harrogate, 690
  • Cleckheaton to Chester, 476
  • Colchester to Bristol, 27, 476
  • Congleton to Well-' (Norfolk) and Back, 356
  • Coventry to Cardiff, 476
  • Darlington to Pwllheli. 331
  • Daventry to South wold, 78, 117
  • Exeter to Finsbury Park, N., 441
  • Walthamstow, 412
  • Harrogate to Brookland-, 732
  • Cockermouth and Clowyn Bay, 208
  • — — Leominster, 116
  • Hastings to Lampeter and Back, 606
  • Hertford to Clevedon (Somerset), 53
  • Hingham (Norfolk) to Malvern, 532
  • Hull to Swansea, 662
  • Kensington to Wigton (Cumberland), 384
  • Kettering to Petersfield, 691
  • Lanark to Gravesend. 532
  • Langley (Bucks) to Helston (Cornwall), 533
  • Leeds to Folkestone, 413
  • Leicester to Bournemouth, 731
  • Hereford, 78
  • Talybont-on-Usk, 468
  • London to Clacton-on-Sea, 635
  • Holy head, 4 41
  • Newquay (Cornwall), 634
  • Weymouth, 522
  • Macclesfield to Benfleet (Essex), 261
  • — — Woolwich, 53
  • Blanchester to Southampton, 440
  • Map showing how to Avoid London. 266
  • Melton Mowbray to Cromer, 469
  • Middlesbrough to Oakenshaw, 162
  • Mold to Cockermouth. 384
  • Newport (Mon.) to Leighton Buzzard. 115
  • — to Brighton, 560
  • Norwich to Hay (Brecknockshire), 469
  • Portsmouth to Chatham and Ipswich, 115
  • Bedditch to Uxbridge. 635
  • Salisbury to Exeter. 621. 675
  • Sheffield to Glasgow. 663
  • Six Days' Trials Route, 653
  • St. Helens to Starbeck. 27
  • St. Leonards-on-Sea to Leicester, 385, 441
  • Sunderland to Southampton. 330
  • Thames Ditton to Liverpool, 286
  • Traffic Dodging, Route across London. 534
  • Tunbridge Wells to Barnstaple. 115
  • Wem (Salop) to London. 560
  • Wimbledon to Cheltenham. 286
  • Woking to Brenzett. Dungeness, 690
  • Woodbridge to Brooklands, 476
  • Worthing to Callington (Cornwall), 385
  • Leckhampton (Glos.), 385
  • Rover, Run on a. 474
  • Royal Automobile Club—
  • — Continental Touring. 728
  • — Illuminated Speed Limit Signs, 197
  • — Road Guide Scheme. 193. 220, 221. 252
  • — Touring Guides, 456
  • — Warning Signs, 310. 573
  • Royal Irish Association—
  • — Activities, 251. 313
  • — East Surrey Centre of the, 197
  • Royal Irish Constabulary, Experiences of the. 118, 167, 168
  • Rudge Multi, Trial of, 446
  • Rugby. Invasion of. See Coventry and Warwickshire M.C.
  • Runabouts, Autocrat Cyclecar, 269
  • — Registration of. 731
  • — Three-wheeled. 663
  • Running Expenses. See Cost of Running a Motor Cycle.
  • Saddle Design. 556
  • Saddle-pillars, Spring, 84
  • Saddles, 80
  • Schickel Engine, 46
  • Scotland, Sidecar Taxation in, 507
  • Scottish Auto Cycle Union, 427, 429, 458. 599
  • — Six Days’ Trials, 723
  • — Trials, 390
  • — — Chaperonb for the, 448
  • Scriven, Jack, Photograph, 532
  • Sealer, 262
  • Seat-pillar, Spring, 332, 358
  • Seat Support, Anti-vibratory, 552
  • Second-hand Machines, 26, 323
  • Senspray Racing Carburetter, 659
  • Sewell, Miss E. E., Cartoon, 97
  • Sheep on the Highway, 662
  • Sheffield and Hallamshire M.C.C.—
  • — Affiliation and the, 195
  • — Annual Winter Reliability Run, 3^
  • Shepheard, G. E., Sir Wotabout, Knuterrant, 294
  • Sidecar Novices, 668
  • — Storm Apron. 54
  • — Tip,508
  • — Work, Power required for, 581, 591, 592, 727
  • Sidecars—
  • — Bat, One Day Trial and, 268
  • — Belts and, 90
  • — Body, Novel, 648
  • — Control of, 236
  • — Counter-shaft, Transmission, 575
  • — Driving from the-Seat, 32
  • — Fittings, 181
  • — Quickly Detachable, 145
  • — For Milk Round, 287
  • — Hill-climbing with, 330
  • — Humber, Climbing Edge Ilill, 214
  • — In a Sidecar, 349
  • — Joint, 636
  • — Licence for, 50
  • — Lights on, 387
  • Millford, 106 n _
  • — Modern Lightweights and, 537
  • — N.S.U. 6 h.p. Twin, with Sheet Metal Body, 90, 161
  • — Power required for, 619, 620, 648
  • Puch, 536
  • — Requirements, 140
  • — Single-cylinder and, 234. 493
  • — Single or Twin for, 663
  • — Six Days' Record. 277. 316, 351
  • — Sociable. 161. 166
  • — Stand, 210
  • — “ Stanguard.” Combined Stand and Mudguard, 306
  • — Tour in Ireland, 158
  • — Transmission and Power for, 634
  • — Tulip. 288
  • — Two-speed Singles and. 27
  • — Weak Axles on Low-priced, 565, 618
  • — Weight of, 287
  • Sideslip. Handle-bar Free Engine Control and. 58
  • — How to Prevent. 25, 33. 100
  • Silencers—
  • — Auto Cycle Union Trials, 73, 228. 290
  • — Big Trials and, 148
  • — Binks, 433
  • — Improving. 356
  • — M.C.C. Trials. 341, 350
  • — New Clair. 145
  • Sidecars, for, 241
  • Snake. 199
  • Single and Twin, Cost of Running, 560
  • Single-cylinder, Test of a Big Excelsior, 344
  • Sir Wotabout, Knut-Errant, by Fred Gillett and G. E. Shepheard, 294
  • Six Days' Trials. See Auto Cycle Union.
  • Sleeve Protectors, 20
  • Slide Valve Engine without Gear Wheels, 95
  • Snow, Winter Ride in the. 164
  • Sociable—
  • — A.C. Special Construction. 230
  • — Week-end on a. 134
  • South Africa, Motor Cycles in. 513
  • — African Championship. 233
  • — Australia M.C.C., Speed Trial, 456
  • — Birmingham M.C.C.. 146
  • — Novices’ Trial,’ 225
  • South-east London M.C.C.. Woolwich
  • — Plumstead. and District 51.C..
  • — Interclub Reliability Trial, 319
  • South Kensington Museum, Interesting Exhibit at, 191
  • — Wales A.C., Cardiff M.C. and Inter-club
  • — Hill-climb, 353, 575
  • Southampton, Tolls and Taxes, 26
  • Southern Nigeria, Experiences in, 118
  • Spanner, Novel Adjustable, 156
  • Spares, Tools and, 126
  • Spark Advance, Economy and, 234
  • — Maximum Intensity of, 208
  • Sparking Plugs—
  • — Double Spark, 78
  • — Leather Case for, 304
  • — Multi-pole, 24, 50, 74, 102, 118, 143, 169, 220, 248
  • — Re V. 181
  • Speed Gear Transmission Adjustment, 236
  • — Limits, 251
  • Speedometers, 306, 585
  • — Watford, 645
  • — Wheel Sizes and, 676
  • Spencer, L. W., Week-end Exploring Exmoor, 705
  • Sphinx Flex Jet, 306
  • Spiers, Miss Mina, Photograph, 291
  • Spring Deliveries, 18
  • — Frame Machine, 79 -
  • Stage, Motor Cycle on the, 251
  • Starting, Easy, 116, 260. See also Footstarter.
  • Staxton Brow Hill-climb, 401
  • Stockport M.C.C., Non-stop Reliability Trial, Photograph, 13
  • Stolen Machines, 196
  • Stoneleigh Hill, Climbing, 186, 187
  • Stoney Brow, Manchester, Climbing of, 79, 103
  • — Gradient of, 121
  • Straight, Mr. F.—
  • — Resignation of, from A.C.U., 371
  • — Ten Years’ Experience of the Pastime, 451
  • Streamline Bodies for Motor Cycles, 56, 119, 166, 194, 309
  • Streatham and District M.C.C.—
  • — Annual Dinner, 77
  • Surrey M.C.C. v., 97, 174
  • — Winter Reliability Trial and Interclub Competition, 151
  • — Trial for the Orde Cup, 653
  • Succombes Hill, Fine Climb, 657
  • Sulphuric Ether, Mixing in Petrol, 191
  • Sunday, Hiring on, 90
  • Surrey M.C.C.—
  • Streatham and District M.C.C. v., 97,174
  • — Winter Reliability Trial and Inter-club Competition, 151
  • Sutton Coldfield A.C.—
  • — Lightweight Races at Aston, 545
  • — Mid-Warwickshire A.C. and, 228
  • — Open Amateur Hill-climb, 508, 546, 570
  • — Reliability Trial, 147, 152, 202-5 Entries, 173, 174
  • — Regulations, 125
  • Sweden, Motor Cycle Tours in, 277
  • Swiss Rain Guns, 75
  • Tanks, Tapered, 39
  • Tappets, Adjustable, 78
  • — Cams and, 235
  • Taxation, 443, 525, 591
  • — Business Motor Cycles and, 157, 165
  • — Registration and, 116
  • Ten Years’ Experience of the Pastime, 451, 486
  • Testers. A Morning with the, 186, 187
  • Theatricals, Motor Cycles and, 100
  • Three-wheeler, Light, 138
  • Triumph, Decompressor for, 663
  • Throttles, Air Valves and, 90
  • — Valve Opening and, 261
  • T.M.C 1912 Model, 67
  • Tolls, Cressage Toll Bridge doomed, 171
  • Tool Roll, Serviceable, 54
  • Tools, Spares and, 126
  • Toolbag Attachment, 674
  • Touring Abroad, 441
  • — Equipment, by B. H. Davies, 304
  • Touring Motor Club of France—
  • — Grand Prix de Champagne, 573, 599
  • — Paris to Trouville, 486
  • — Reliability Trial, 513
  • Tourist Trophy Race. See Auto Cycle Union.
  • Tours—
  • — Lincoln via Oxford to Winchester, Exeter, Gloucester, Warwick, to the Dukeries, 287
  • — Sidecar Tour in Ireland, 158
  • — See Tyrol and Back on Motor Cycles.
  • Tow Top, Climbing on a Sidecar. 394
  • Transmission, Evolution of, 51, 75, 117, 144, 170, 222
  • Transmission, Question of, 166, 267
  • — Silent Chain, 184
  • Treatise on Tuning up, A, 496, 504
  • Trembler Coils, Dry Cells and, 261
  • Trial, What is a Complicated ? 123
  • Trials, Silencers in the, 170
  • Tricars, Conversions, 530, 591
  • Trick Riding on a Motor Cycle, 325, 326
  • Tricycles, Run on the Roc, 240
  • — Spring Suspension, 288
  • Trouser Guard, 304
  • T.T. Race for Motortrips, A (illus.), 322
  • Twins—
  • — Big, Upkeep of, 209
  • — Cylinder Engines. See Engines.
  • — Cylinders not taking Air, 261
  • — For Sidecar and Solo Work, 331.
  • — Horse-power of, 28
  • — Powerful Twin of Original Design, 587
  • — Single v., 140
  • Two-speed Single v., 52
  • Two-stroke Engines, 108-110
  • Tyres. 25, 26, 618
  • — Inferior Repair Outfits, 417
  • — J.P. Tyre and Belt, 181, 210
  • — Method of Repairing Outer Covers, 63
  • — Plans for 1912, 215
  • — Repair Hints, 100
  • — Rubber-studded Covers, 54
  • — Strength of. 591
  • — Successes of, 132
  • — Tests at Last ’ 640
  • — Wear of, 532
  • Tyrol and Back on Motor Cycle, by W. Fawcett, 15, 42, 69, S6. 112
  • — Letters, 167, 195
  • Ultra Lightweight, 24
  • Valve and Magneto Timing, 384
  • — Grinding, 522
  • — Seatings, Repairing, 385
  • Valves, A.O.I.V. on Small Twin, 261
  • — Automatic Inlet, and Overheaing, 162
  • — Differential, 448
  • — Manufacture of Two-piece, 524
  • — Throttle and Air, 90
  • Vancouver, Freight and Duty to, 357
  • Vaporiser, Mechanical, 36
  • Variable Gears. See Gears.
  • Veloce, Run on the, 557
  • Ventnor, Tulse Hill Gradient, 246
  • Voltalite, The, 188
  • Vulcanising, Cold, 331, 424
  • V-Twin, Firing Intervals on a, 731
  • Wales, Dinas Mawddwy, Steepest Hill in, 628
  • War Office-
  • — Orders for Motor Cycles, 251
  • — Tests, 262, 368
  • Warfare, Motor Cycle in, and on Manoeuvres, 75
  • Warmington Hill, Climbing, 233
  • Water, Riding through, 162
  • Waterproof Motor Cycle Clothing, 24, 50, 51, 72, 84
  • Watford Speedometer, 645
  • Week-end on a Sociable, 134
  • Weight Definition, 525
  • West Australian M.C.C., Reliability Trial, 276
  • Westmorland M.C.C.—
  • — Brigsteer Brow Hill Climb, 409
  • — Reliability Trial, 498
  • Who will Win T.T. Races ? by Kirkmichael, 700
  • Why Amateurs get Beaten, by B. H. Davies, 367
  • Wilding, Mr. A. F., An All-round Sportsman, 501
  • Willett, Mrs. K. B., Photograph, 63
  • Winter Mudguarding, 24, 41, 181
  • — Runs, 1. 58, 101, 141 in the Snow, 164
  • — Trials Results, 49
  • Wireless Telegraphy on a Motor Cycle, 702
  • Woolwich, Plumstead, and District M.C.
  • South-east London M.C.C., Inter-club Reliability Trial, 319
  • Sam Wright|Wright, Sam]], My Most Exciting Ride, 638
  • Yorkshire A.C., Beach Racing in Yorkshire, 65