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The Motor Cycle 1911 Jan-Jun

Accessibility, A Study in, 58
Accessories, Among the, 116, 209, 317, 344, 5 8 5
— Experience with Various, An, 85, 135
Acclivities, Some Lesser-known, 306-310
Accumulator, Sulphated, A, 226
Acetylene Generators, Water Freezing in, 135
Aeroplane v. Motor Cycle in U.S.A., 97
Africa, Powerful Mount for African Roads, 44
— South, Cape Peninsula M.C.C., 40 Motor Cycle in, 492
— West, Vision from, 494
Air-cooled Quadcar, The Light, 545
Alcyon, The New, 356
Alldays New 3| h.p. Model, 635
Alton, Inter-club Hill-climb at, 480
Altrincham, Dunham Hill (illus.), 185
Amalgamation, The Advantage of, 14
Amateurs, Competitions for Amateurs only, 495, 521
— Concerning, 104
— Professional Riders v., Coventry and
Warwickshire M.C.C. Event for, 184,
369, 504, 509, 529, 564
— Pseudo-Ama teur, 104
American and English Times, Best, 301,
328, 347, 373, 399, 445
America, Records in 1910, 56
— South, Experience from, An, 493
Antipodes, British Motor Cycles in the, 40, 84
— Carnival in the, 166
— Motor Cycle Events in the, 367
Argentine Republic, The Motor Cycle in the, 161
Ariel and its Decompressor, 343
Aughton Hill-climb, 352
Australia, Motor Cycle in the West of, 348
— Petrol Consumption Trial in the South,
430,
— Rider’s Criticism of Motor Cycle
Design, 494
— Rubber Belts in, 322
— West Australian Rider’s Views, 493 Auto Cycle Union—
Affiliations, 141
Annual General Meeting, 241, 330
— Race Meeting at Brooklands, 571, 605
Eighth Annual Dinner, 68, 110 Handbook, Concerning the, 89 Lamp Trials at Brooklands, 33, 108 Criticisms and Suggestions,
A few, 114
Lack of Support, 146 London Centre, Reorganisation of, 327 Membership Scheme, The New, 1, 141 Metropolitan Centre of the, 525 News, 33, 108, 243, 374, 479, 524 Northern League of Motor Cyclists and, 413
Private Riders and the, 21
Quarterly Trials, 189, 191
April, The, 215, 264, 413, 447 Course, Over the, 301 Selection of the, 191,
223
• Views on the, 228
Entries for, 411 Incidents of the, 440 Judges’ Report, 457 List of Performances and
Official Awards, 429 Report of, 424-429 Hill-climbing in the, 40 January, The, 136, 140 Course, The New, 13, 59 Criticism of the, 90 Entries for, 65, 88, 89 Fads and Fancies on the*
Machines in, 149
Official Awards, 144 Regulations, 39
Quarterly Trials, January, The Report on, 117-122
Results of, 122
Lightweights in the, 446
Machines in the, 214
Manufacturers’ Union and the, 445
Regulations, New, 27, 39
Sutton Bank and the, 444
Trade and, 49, 73
Six Days’ Reliability Trial, Course, Description of, 215, 252
Map of, 218
— Notes, 571
Strength of, 353
Suggestion for the, 141
Test Hills, 472
Tourist Trophy Race, 260, 268, 648-658 — — — All about the Junior and Senior, 590-592
All-British Mounts for, 141
Cost of, 449
Course, Practising on the, 327, 570, 629
Question of, 109
Engineers, Suggestion for, 22 Entries, 65, 139, 502, 549, 578,
614 Fund, 298, 502, 571 Items of Interest, 299
J.A.P. Engines and, 333 Notes, 430, 549, 571, 604, 615
Regulations for 1911, 313, 325
Riders’ Weights in the, 437
Singles v. Twins, 193 — Topics, 612
Trade and the, 89, 141
Automobile Association, Amalgamation with Motor Union, 14 63, 107

Balancing of V Twin Engines, 414 Band Brakes. See Brakes.
Barnes, George A., Motor Cyclist and Airman, 448
Barnet Shooting Case, 601, 660
Battery, A Long-lived, 202
Belts, Adjustable Fasteners, 644
— Differential, 544
— Preserve Belt Rubber, How to, 321
— Rubber, in Australia, 322
— Treatment of, 384
— Undergeared Pulleys and Diameter of
Rims, 55
Berend, Miss L., “ The Lady Motor
Cyclist,” 278
Beverley, Hull Bridge (illus.), 184
Billings, B. Richardson, A Memorable Afternoon’s Ride, 154
Binks’s Single-lever Two-jet Carburetter, 465
Birmingham M.C.C.—
Competition for the Lycett Trophy, 487 Land’s End Trial, 195, 353, 578, 592
Shelsley Walsh Hill-climb, Report and Results, 598
Biscoff, Rev. P. W., and Miss B. Langston, Sidecar Suggestions, 276
Booth, R. G., Illness of, 524
” Boring ” in Track Races, 525
Bournemouth to Dover, Route, 582
Brakes, External Band, 416 ,445, 495, 541, 544
Bread Delivery, Motor Cycle for, 318, 371 Bristol B. and M.C.—
Open Hill-climb near Bath, 454-456
Judges’ Decision at the, 503
Results of, 447
British and American Times, Best, 301, 328, 347, 373, 399, 445
British Motor Cycle Racing Club— Annual General Meeting of the, 65, 133
Brooklands, First Monthly Meeting at, 195, 245, 293-295
Fourth Members’ Meeting, 525, 588
Second 1911 Meeting, 375, 430, 450
Third 1911 Monthly Meeting, 510
Brittany, A Scamper in, by F. Horsfteld, 438
Brooker, J. W. G., “Lubrication,” Summary of a Lecture, 244
Brooklands, Easter Racing Events at, 266, 349, 379, 407, 423
— First 1911 Meeting, 195
— Observations of, 387
— Racing at, 323
— Record Breaking at, 500
— Ten Feet Line, 587, 630
— Third Short Handicap, 627
— Whit-Monday Meeting, 557, 577
Brooklands Automobile Racing Club—
Membership Fee, 401 Opening Race Meeting, 329 Entries for, 289 Third 1911 Meeting, 486
Brown Lightweight, The New, 521
Burney, C. S., Acceleration Test at Brooklands, 108

California, Oil-treated Roads in, 492
Camping de Luxe, by F. Horsfield, 647
Canada, Motor Cycling in, 210
— Riders of British Motor Cycles in (illus.), 71
— Winter Riding in England and, 136
Cape Peninsula M.C.C., First Hill-climb (illus.), 197
Carbon Deposits, Compression and, 71, 472, 516,
Cure for, 104
Removing, 240
Carbonisation in Theory and Practice, 466
Carburation, 385
— Valve Stretching and, 557
Carburetters, Adjustment, 54 2
— Automatic, 342, 399
— Auxiliary Air Chimneys, 463
— Binks’s Single-lever Two-jet, 465
— Dust and, 104
— Flooding of, 225 Cure for, 96
— Moisture on the, 26
— N.S.U. Automatic, 552
— Obstruction in, 46, 226
— Popping in the, 47
— Scott-Robinson, A New, 393
— Spray, 335
Cardiff M.C. Hill-climb at Cross Hands Hill,
528
Catt, A. E., Six Days’ Record, 448, 452, 473. 488, 498, 512-514, 554
“ Celeriter,” Military Motor Cycling Notes, 539
Ceylon, Motor Cycle in, 59, 394
Chain Transmission, 225
Chains, Worn, 173
Change-speed Gears. See Gears. Channel, How to Cross the, 634
Chater-Lea Quadcar, 553
Cheshire, End of a Wet Day in (illus.), 79
Clark, Eli, Presentation to, 64
Clarke, W. J., Six Days’ Record Attempt, 571. 627
Cleaning and Overhauling a Motor Cycle, 38
Clipstone, Speed Trials at, 602
Club Championship Trials, 190
Clubhouse Scheme, The London, 297, 326

CLUB NEWS—

Auto Cycle Union (Midland Centre), 332
Ayr and District M.C.C., 410, 483, 580
Barnoldswick and District M.C., 434
Bath C.C. (Motor Section), 579
Batley and District M.C.C., 359
Belfast and District M.C.C., 457, 629
Birmingham M.C.C., 66, 91, 246, 271, v 332, 358, 433, 482, 506, 557
Bishop Auckland, Darlington, and District M.C., 16, 66, 196, 217, 246, lx 359, 459, 063
Bolton and District M.C.C., 115a, 246, 434, 581, 629
Bombay M. and A.C.C., 146
Bradford M.C.C., 381. 482, 501, 533, 665
Brighouse and District M.C.C., 557
Brighton, New Club for, 171
Bristol B. and M.C., 16, 147, 216, 271, 358, 410, 579
British Motor Cycle Racing Club, 146
Brookdale C. and S.C. (M.C. Section), 331 Bucks M.C.C., 532
Burnley A.C., 382, 458, 482, 579 — (Victoria) M. and C.C., 16, 197
Cambridgeshire M.C.C., 170, 483. 579, 664
Cambridge University M.C.C., 170, 247, 269. 297, 506, 607
Cape Peninsula M.C.C., 197 Cardiff M.C., 92, 115b, 147
Carlyle C.C. (M.C. Section), 297
Cathcart and District M.C.C., 664
Chesterfield M.C.C., 247
Clacton-on-Sea M.C., 505
Cork and District M.C.C., 171, 297, 410, 434, 607, 629
Cornwall M.C.C., 66, 91, 269, 296, 382, 555
Coventry and Warwickshire M.C., 91, 146, 184, 216, 247, 270, 358 410, 458, 581, 663
Cumberland County M.C.C., 271, 629
Daimler M.C.C., 359
Derby and District M.C.C., 66, 91, 115a, 196, 216. 357, 458. 481, 581, 629
Doncaster and District M.C.C., 483, 505, 579 629
Dublin and District M.C.C., 197, 296, 530, 580, 607, 628
Dudley and District M.C.C., 331, 483
Dundee M.C.C., 482, 664
Durham and District M.C.C., 16, 196, 357 433
Edinburgh and District M.C.C., 91, 147, 383, 411, 458, 481, 505, 506, 555, 581, 607, 628
Essex M.C.C., 43, 66, 333, 358, 382, 410, 457, 557, 580, 581, 628, 664
Exeter and District M.C.C., 66, 115a, 171, 216, 581, 663
Falkirk and District M.C.C., 628
Finsbury Park C.C. (M.C. Section), 91, 333
Fleet and District M.C.C., 246, 357
Folkestone, Suggested Club for, 115a
Gainsborough M.C.C., 533
Glasgow M.C.C., 16, 91, 196, 269, 505
Gloucester City C. and M.C., 296
Great Yarmouth and District M.C.C. See Norfolk M.C.C.
Grosvenor M.C.C., 333, 359
Halifax and District M.C.C., 197
Hampshire Motor Cycle Union, 297, 665
Harrogate and District M.C.C., 171, 217, 506, 531, 607
Hartlepool and District M.C.C., 608
Helensburgh M.C.C., 115a, 532 Herefordshire A.C., 434
Hereford and District M.C.C., 217, 530
Herts County A.C. (M.C. Section), 147, 185, 196, 217, 271, 296, 381, 383, 482, 628, 663
High Wycombe and District M.C.C., 196, 506
Howden M.C.C., 483
Huddersfield and District A.C.C., 358, 557
Hull and East Riding A.C.C., 196, 246, 357, 481, 505, 628
Ilkley and District M.C.C., 66, 197, 2 46, 331, 409, 580, 628
Inverness and District M.C.C., 482
Jocker-Bill M.C., 196
Lancashire M.C.C., 115a, 581
Leeds M.C.C., 247, 359, 410, 458, 506, 530, 557, 628
Leicester and District M.C.C., 66, 217, 271, 332, 481
Leven and District M.C.C., 459
Lewes M.C.C., 146, 359
Lincolnshire A.C. (Motor Cycle Section), 91, 115a, 170, 332, 434, 482, 664
Liverpool A.C.C., 16, 66, 92, 171, 246, , 296, 409, 434
Macclesfield M.C.C., 481
Manchester M.C.. 410, 532, 555
— Wednesday M.C.C., 663
Marlborough A.C. (M.C. Section), 333, w 557,607
Mersey M.C., 16, 91, 271, 333, 482, 531, ,r,41 n 581, 628, 664
Middlesbrough and District M.C.C., 146, K 271, 458
Motor Cycle Union of Ireland (Ulster Centre). 433, 532, 607, 664
Motor Cycling Club, 16, 171, 181, 271, 331, 409, 434, 628, 665
Naval M.C., 383
Newcastle M C , 66, 92, 246, 382, 410, 580, 663
— (Staffs ) M.C., 216
Newport (Mon.) and District M.C.C., 217 271 331
Norfolk MC.C., 146, 196, 531’
Northamptonshire M.C.C., 43, 433, 663
Northants M.C.C., 115b
North-eastern Automobile Association, 216
Northern League of Motor Cyclists, 296, 359, 457, 481, 530
North Middlesex M.C.C., 16, 42, 196, 270, 296, 533, 555, 581, 628
North Staffordshire M.C.C., 269, 331, 357, 434, 506, 531, 629
North Wales M.C.C., 359. 531
North-west London M.C.C., 43, 115b, 147, 247, 271, 296, 331, 382, 457, 482, 607
Norwich and District M.C.C., 433
Nottingham and District M.C.C., 171, 359, 411, 458
Oxford M.C.C., 42, 66, 115b, 170, 217, 246, 271, 359, 434, 482, 557
Oxton and Claughton (Birkenhead) M.C C. 333
Perth and District M.C.C , 382, 409, 607
Plymouth and District M.C.C., 66, 331
Pontefract M C , 507, 555
Purley and District M.C.C., 197, 433, 458, 483, 533
Putney and District M C C , 359, 628
Reading and District M.C.C., 115a, 483
Redcar and District M.C.C., 333
Redditch and District M.C.C., 171, 333, 628
Rhymney Valley M.C., 411
Ripon and District M.C.C., 359, 411, 506, 607, 665
Sarum and District M.C.C , 579, 607
Scarborough and District M.C., 66, 170, 246, 359, 481, 556
Scottish Border MC.C., 170, 196, 411, 54
Sheffield and Hallamshire M.C.C., 91, 115b, 181, 216, 270, 358, 481, 483, 506, o <3 *555
Shropshire M C.C., 357, 411, 458,’530, 556, 607
Southampton and District M.C., 217
South Australian M.C.C., 533
South-east London M.C.C., 247, 333, 383, 433 531
Southend-on-Sea M.C.C., 171, 196’
Stockport and District M.C.C., 333, 608
Streatham and District M.C.C., 16, 43, 91, 115a, 196, 271, 297, 357, 381, 409, 458, 556, 580
Stroud M.C.C., 381
Suffolk, Suggested Club for, 170 Surrey M.C.C., 92, 115a, 217, 331, 357, 382, 557, 665
Sutton Coldfield A.C., 42, 66, 115a, 147, 246, 296, 358, 409, 411, 634, 459
Swadlincote and District M.C.C., 216
Sydney (N.S.W.) M.C.C., 628
Taunton M.C.C., 483, 530, 664
Torbay and District M.C.C., 42, 171, 270, 358, 533, 665
Tunbridge Wells M.C.C , 530, 665
Victoria (N.S.W.) M.C.C., 663
Walsall M.C.C., 297, 382. 409, 533
Walthamstow M.C., 66, 115b, 147, 217, 246, 297, 332, 358, 359, 411, 433, 505, 555, 580, 628, 664
Wansbeck M.C., 458. 557
West Cumberland M.C., 581
West Essex M.C.C., 91, 115b, 196, 530, 557, 628, 664
— Lancashire M.C.C., 115a, 359
— of Scotland M.C.C., 296, 383
Western District M.C. (London), 115b, 246, 270, 332, 357, 433, 459, 481, 530, 579
Westmoreland M.C.C., 115a, 147, 247, 433, 483, 507, 532, 555, 607
Willesden Green C. and M.C.C., 217, 296, 506
Winchester and District M.C.C., 171
Woolwich, Plumstead, and District M.C.C., 381, 410, 459, 483, 533, 628
Worcestershire M.C.C., 147, 331, 530, 581, 664
Yeovil and District M.C.C., 147
York City and District M.C., 296
— County M.C.C., 115a, 170, 359, 506,
Clubs, Leading Motor Cycle. See Lcadinir Motor Cycle Clubs.
Clutch Control, 416 Clutches, “ Free,” 490
— Gear Variation by Slipping, 23, 38, 55, 60, 93
— Premier Free-engine Hub, 170
— Variable Speed Gears and, 470, 520
— Villiers’ Hub Clutch, 192
Coast Bides. See Catt, A. E., and Dover, Fred
Colonial Models, Why they are Necessary. 545
— Requirements, 105, 208, 212, 256, 261, 566
— Roads, High Clearance for— 493 Colonies, Transmission for the, 22, 55 Comparisons, 637
Competitions, Amateurs only, for, 495
— Hints on Competition Riding, 158
— International, 139
— in 1911, 227, 316
— Sunday, 161
Compression, Carbon Deposit and, 71
— Forced Induction, 83
— Poor, 26, 97, 517
— Variable Devices, 240 Consumption, Current, 70, 226, 334 Contact Breaker, Sparking at, 201 Continental Holidays, 316
— Tourists, How to Cross the.Channel, 634 Control Levers, Transmission, 342
Cooper, W., London-Exeter Winter Run,
Experiences of, 9 Cornering, Photographic Studies in, 537
Cost of Running a Motor Cycle, 24, 36, 60, 84, 106, 134, 137, 163, 262 Couplers, Cycle, 31
Cove, H.G., Illness of, 502
Coventry and Warwickshire M.C.C.—- Amateurs, Professionals v., 184, 504 Programme for 1911, 184
Crank Case, Flushing, 442 Overheated, 46
Creyton, W., Recovery of, 64 Cudham, Test at, 190
Cumberland County M.C.C.—
Kirkstone Pass Hill-climb, 404 Reliability Trial, 527

CURRENT CHAT—

Acceleration Test at Brooklands, 108 Accident due to Fast Speed, Another 375, Advantages of a Motor Cycle, 548 Amalgamation, The Advantages of, 14 American Invasion, 15, 64
— Records Rejected, 214
Anything and Everything for a Motor Cycle. 548
Aston, Motor Cycle Race at, 430 Attempt on Record at New Brighton, 401 Aughton Hill-climb, 352
Automobile Association and Motor Union, New Badge, 41
Baron de Forest’s £4,000 Prize, Winner of, 14
” Basic ” Patent Covering Motor Cycles, 14
British Motor Cycle Racing Club. See that title.
Cycles in the Antipodes, 40
Bullet Rewards Motor Cycle Speed, 40
Canadian Police on Motor Cycles, 267
Carnival in the Antipodes, 166
Catalogue Artists and the Motor Cycle, 401
Club Championship Trials, 190
Coast Ride, Another Long, 548
Conviction for Obstruction, 400, 525
Coventry Riders Fined, 167
Criticism of the Quarterly Trials Course, 90
Cudham, Test at, 190 Customs Tariffs, 266
Cyclist Fined for Obstruction, 400
Derby Club’s Preparations for Team
Trial, 630
Direction Posts, 191
Disclaimer, A, 299
Distinction without a Difference, 242
District Trials, a Suggestion, 190 Dog, The Vicious, 524
Dunlop Tyres, Mileage of, 215
Exhaust Gas to Warm Handle-bars, 14 English and American Times, The Best.
See that title
Four Hundred and Ninety-two Miles per Gallon, 571

French Motor Cycle Trial, 353
German Motor Cycle Corps, 167
Go-anywhere Machine of 2|h.p., 503
Godfrey, O.C., Indian Tribe and, 191
Grants from the Road Board, 166
H.M.S. “ Thunderer,” Launching- of, 90, 141
Heaton Woods on the Route of the Six Days’ Trial, 299
Hedge-trimming, 141, 167
Hog Trough, Attack on, 190
Honister Pass Climbed, 166, 243
Hour Record, 90
Humber Experiments, 570
Hutchinson Competition,^Result of the, 64
Irish Record, Attempt to set up an, 327
Isle of Man Speed Limit Abolished, 242
Lady Competitors for “ The Motor Cycle ” Cup, 243
Leicester, Motor Cycle Show at, 64
Lever Action for Pedalling Gear, 65 Lincoln, Clubhouse for, 298
Liverpool Police Vindicated, 431 London-Edinburgh Route, Signposts on the, 266
Long Posh and the Cause, 140
Luggage Problem, Solving the, 90
Manx Coronation Demonstration, 353
Marseilles, Reliability Trial at, 431
Milestone at Bromley, a Link with the Past, 141 .
Motor Cycle as a Means of Improving the Health, 64
for Road Surveyors, 15
— Cyclists for President’s Guard, 64 Natal, Hill-climb in, 90
New South Wales, Hill-climb in, 15
— Zealand, Motor Cycle in, 431 Ninfield, 15
Nitro-glycerine Engine, 190
One Hour or Twenty Laps, 327 — Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-two Miles in Six Days, 430
Oxford, Motor Cycle Show at, 215 Paris to Tronville, 571
Peculiar Accident, 449
Personally Conducted Tour, 430
Police Activity in Worcestershire, 166 — Traps, 191
Quarterly Trials. See Auto Cycle Union. Road Obstruction at Horsey Removed, 525
— Obstructions, 215
— Race in Nyasaland, 41
— Records, A.C.U. Decision re, 215
— “ Trials ” at Hyeres, 401
Roads, Suggested New, 166
Roller Skater v. Motor Cyclist, 166
Royal Navy, Motor Cyclists in the, 660
— Pardon under the Motor Car Act, 375
Salt Box Hill, something like a Hill, 215
Scotland, Proposed Motor Cycle Show for, 431
Secret Hills and Large Entries, 327
Shelsley Walsh Hill-climb, 242
Six Days’ Record, 215
South Africa, New Club for, 40
Southport,. Police Activity at, 299 Speed Limits, 191
— — in Sussex, New, 14
— Match, A Private, 375
State of the Industry, 266
Stolen Motor Cycle. See Motor Cycles.
Stoupe Brow Climbed, 401
Street Surfaces, Gritting of, 90 Stringent Measure, A, 502
Sutton Bank, Inter-club Competition at, 191
Ten-mile Speed Limits, 108
Test Hill, Another, 431
— Run, A Severe, 243
Title, A Lengthy, 267
Tourist Trophy Race. See Auto Cycle Union.
Victoria, Summer Competition in, 65
Wedding, A Motor Cycle, 352
Well-deserved Sentence, 631 Westerham, 15
Witham on the Warpath, 40
Yorkshire Centre Quarterly Trials. See Auto Cycle Union.

Customs Tariffs, 266
Cutler, Trissie, Experience of Hill-climbing, 568
Cut-out Switch, The Tingye, 250
Cyclists’ Touring Club — Annual General Meeting, 298
Programme for 1911, 191
Cylinders, Auxiliary Exhaust Provided by Drilling Holes in, 173
Cylinders, Grit in, Cause of Excessive, 324
— Inequality of Power, 443
— Reboring, 150
— Rusty, 345
— Speedy Single 601
— Staggered, 161
— Vertical: Are they the Best ? 145, 163

Darkness, Wind, and Weather, 28
Davies, B. H.—
— End-to-end Record Holder 603
— Extremes Meet, 304
Facts about Two-stroke Engines, 69
— Finding a Winning Team, 338
— Is the Modern Motor Cycle Perfect ? 80
— Is the Spider Quad coming to Stay ? 536
— Lightweight in 1910, The, 5
— Ten Years’ Progress in Motor Cycle Design, 280-285
De Havilland Motor Cycle, 367
De Lissa, Mrs., Making a Clean Ascent of Kop Hill in the Herts County A.C. Hill-climb, 491
De Rosier, Jacob — Chat with 547
Match with C. R. Collier, 630
— Record Ride in San Francisco, I 66 on a 7 h.p. Indian, Details of, 214 Visit to England, 15, 167
Deans, W., in the Edinburgh M.C.C. Hillclimb at Manor Hill, 507
Derby and District M.C.C.—
— Hill-climb near Alsop-en-le-Dalc (illus.), 65
— Winter Reliability Trial, 195
Dew, W. C. P., Fall into the Sea with his Motor Cycle, 41
Devon, In the Wilds of North Devon, 204-206, 229-232
Differential Gears, Passenger Machines and, 198
District Trials, 190
Dogs, Vicious, 544, 595, 621
Douglas, A Bigger, 545
— - Two-speed. Week-end on a, 183 Dover, Fred, Long Distance Coast Ride,
89, 578, 619, 630, 659 Drip-feed Lubrication, 567
Dust on the Carburetters, 104
Dutch M.C.C.—
First 1911 Summer Meeting (illus.), 502
— Programme of Tour Across England en route for the Isle of Man, 528
Visit to the Isle of Man, 371, 447
Dutch Motor Cyclists, Challenge to, 14, 22, 35 E
Easter Competitions, Forecast of Events, 300
— Jaunts, 337
Edinburgh M.C.C. Hill-climb at Manor Hill, Peebles (illus.), 506
Edward, King, National Memorial to, 254
Egypt, Group of Riders at Alexandria (illus.), 494
— The Sidecar in, 301
End-to-end Record, 519. 546, 603, 618 Engineerng, Motor Cycle, 389
Engines, Air-cooled Piston Valve, An, 115, 129
— Air v. Water-cooled, 345
— Carbon Deposits, Cure for, 104
— Efficiency, 137
— Free-engine Clutch, 151
Criticism, 366
— Improvements, 150
— J.A.P. Tourist Trophy, 333
— Knocking, Peculiar, 311
— Nitro-glycerine, 190
— Overhead Valves on Touring, 272
— Piston Valve Motor Cycle Engine, The First, 4 35
— Precision, Lugs and Plates of, 257
— Premier Free-eugine Hub Clutch, 170
— Rotary Valve, 6
— Slide Valve, 89, 125, 132, 164, 298, 302 Dome, The, 132
First Motor Cycle, 298, 302 Possibilities of the, 130-132
— Starting Motor Cycle, 520, 546, 596
— Two-stroke, Facts about, by B. H. Davies, 69
— Good Performance of a New, 239
— V Twin, Balancing of, 414, 520
— Water-cooled, 353
— Wonderful, A, 136

England and Canada, Winter Riding in, 136
England, Scotland, and Wales, Round the Coast of, 489
English and American Times, Best, 301, 328, 347, 373, 399, 445
Errors in Issuing Results, 389 Essex M.C. Annual Dinner, 86 Exeter M.C.C.’—
Exeter-Land’s End-Exeter Trial, 90
— Sunday Competition, 107
— Winter Trial to Chudleigh, 13
Exports and Imports of Motor Cycles. See Motor Cycles
Extremes Meet, by B. II. Davies, 304

F.N. Users, A Hint for, 519
Fads and Fancies on the Quarterly Trials Machines, 149
Far-off Lands, Experiences in, 485
Selection of Letters from Motor Cyclists in, 493-495
Firmax as a Puncture Sealer, 616
Flying Kilometre Record, 546, 597
Foolproof Machine, The Fool and the, 192
Forced Induction, 83
Four Hundred and Ninety-two Miles per Gallon, 571
Frame Design, 31, 36
France, Motor Cycle as seen through French Spectacles, 259
- Business in, 23, 38, 82, 84
— Road Race in, 406b
Frasetti, Ernest, Climb up Arthur Street, Edinburgh, 242

Gears, Change Speed, 421, 470 for Passenger Work, 124
— Racing Machines and, 559, 595 —- — -Sidecars and. 596. 623, 670
— Singer Co. and, 503
— Changing, 632
— Clutches and Variable Speed, 470, 520
— Differential, Passenger Machines and,
263 Use of a, 135, 186
— Infinitely Variable, Barred, 208 Boycotting, 279
— — — in Hill-climbing, 240, 263
— Pedal-starting, A New Form of, 95
— Pedalling, Lever Action for, 65
— Pulley Two-speed, 72
— Ratio, How to Measure, 395
— — Question of, 25
— Single and Sidecars, 35
— Three-speed Worm-driven, 340
— Triumph, New, 503
— Two-speed, 248
— — Advantages of, 150
— — Detachable, 342, 423
— — Gear Ratio and, 123
— — Hub Gear with Internal Brake, 361
— Variable, A New, 92
— Variation by Slipping a Clutch, 23, 38, 55, 60, 93, 107, 161
Generators, Ro tax Lamp and, 418
Gent, Charles, Death of, 267
Germany, The Motor Cycle in, 255, 352, 375
— Road Tolls in, 375
— Touring in, 272
Gibson, Hugh, Experiences in the London- Exeter Winter Run, 7
Glasgow, Clubroom for, 449 Glasgow M.C.C.—
Open Hill-climb, Results, 481 Scenes at the, 472
Godfrey, O.C.# Indian Tribe and, 191 Gordon Runabout, The, 224
Grandex, Precision Lightweight, 356
Grange, W. E., Climbing Stoupe Brow for the First Time (illus.), 401
Grease Romo ver, 202
Grimsthorpe Park, Speed Trials at, 54 6a
Guildford, An Effective Smash at, 212

H.M.S. “ Thunderer,” Launching of, 90,
Handicappers in Motor Cycle Races, 237
Handle-bars, Exhaust Gas to Warm, 14
— Lamp-bracket combined with, 621
Hardee, Mrs., Successful Hill-climber, 326
Harrogate, Inter-team Trial to, and Ladies Competition. See Herts Count > A C
Harrogate and District M.C.C.— Gymkhana, Results of the, 108
- Winter Trial in Yorkshire, 19
Healy, J.. 1,290 Miles in Six Days on Irish Roads, 355
Heavyweight, Two-speed Gear for a, 201
Herts* County (A.C.M.C. Section)— Annual Dinner, 185
Inter-club Tour to Harrogate and Open Hill-climb, 245, 318
— Report of, 402- 402b, 432
Ladies’ Tour to Harrogate, 167, 432
Members" Hill-climb at Kop Hill, 351
— Results and Report, 475-477
North-west London M.C.C., 197
Open Speed Trials at Brookmail’s Park, 550, 606

Hewitt, Walter, Death of, 326
Highways. See Roads
Hill-climbing, 166, 371, 397, 399, 421, 423, 445, 471, 520
— Feature of this Year’s Hill-climb, 488
— Formula? in D ill-climbs, 509, 584
— Infinitely Variable Gears in, 240, 263
— Lady’s Experience of, 568
— Lightweights in, 567
— Passenger Classes. 568
— Twin-cylinder Sociables and, 397
Hills, In Search of Steep, 315
? Hillyard, G. W., in the Leicester M.C.C. Hill-climb (illus.), 532
Hints and Tips for Motor Cyclists. See Mqtor Cyclists
Hobart, The New Twin-cylinder, 45
Holidays, Continental, 316
Honister Pass Climbed, 140, 166, 243
Horse-power, 173
— Rating, 301, 347, 399
— Sidecar Work for, 172
Horsfield, F., Camping de Luxe, 647 Scamper in Brittany, A, 438 Hour Record, 553
Hub Lubricants, 392
Hughes, G., With Miss Tomlin as Passenger (illus.), 109
Humber Models, New, 526
Hutchinson Tyre Co , Result of Competition, 64
— Correction in, 109
Hyeres Road, “ Trials ” at, 401

Ideal Motor Cycle, My, by R. Rude. 156, ’ - 158, 386
— The. 521, 544
Ignition, Knocking due to Pre-ignition, 384
— Synchronised, Meaning of, 151
— of a V Type Twin, 225
Imports and Exports of Motor Cycles See Motor Cycles
Improvements, Needed, 24, 60
India, The Motor Cycle in, 371 Induction, Forced, 32, 83
Initials and Names, Confusion of, 212 Insurance Policies, 22, 35, 595, 672 International Competitions, 139, 560
— Reliability Trials, 372, 398 Belgian Interest in the Suggested Competition, 322
Inter-team Trial at Harrogate. See Herts County A.C.
Ireland, Recollections of an Irish Tour, 518 Is the Spider Quad coming to Stay ? By B. 11. Davies, 536
~ — — Reply, 594
Isle of Man, Coronation Demonstration.353
Itahah Lightweight Definitions, 353
Italy, The Motor Cycle in, 372
Ixion, Private Riders and the Auto Cycle Union, 66'2

Jamaica, Interesting Communication from, 492 James, Details of the Standard 3| hp.., 257 Jarrott Cup Competition. See M.C.C.
London-Land’s End-London Run
Jets, One Big or Many Small, 236
— Small, 334
Johannesburg to Pretoria and Back Race, T , 581
John-o -Groat’s House, Origin of, 112
Joint Conference, The, 305
K
Ketch, J. Upset by a Dug, 56
Kettering to Sheffield, Route, 582
Kingston Road Danger, 568
Kirk Michael, Tourist Trophy Topics, 612 Knocking, 248
— due to Pre-ignition, 384
Kop Hill, Gradients of, 449
L
L.M. Quadcar, The, 63
Lacquers, Transparent, 563
Ladies’ Competitions, Ruling for, 267
Lady Motor Cyclists, 323, 348, 363, 372,
422, 471
' Competition to Harrogate and
Back, 353, 379, 417
— — — Lady Motor Cyclist, The, by
Miss L. Berend, 278, 323
* Leightweights, A Preference for the, 393
Lake Baikal, From Pekin to, by Motor Cycle, by Prof. E. J. Nystrom, 74-77 Lamps, Adjustable Bracket, A New, 244
— Bracket and Handle-bar combined, 621
— Night Riding and, 83
— Rotax Lamp and Generator, 418
— Trials. See Auto Cycle Union Lancashire to South Devon, Route, 583
Langston, Miss B., and Rev. P. W. Bischoff, Sidecar Suggestions, 276
Launceston A.C., Annual Reliability Trial, 65

LEADERETTES—

Auto Cycle Union. See that title.
Comparisons, 637
Competitions (1911), 227
Easter Jaunts, 337
Errors in Issuing Results, 389 Experiences in Far-off Lands, 485 Farcical Position, 413
Formulae in Hill-climbs, 509 Interchangeability of Tyres, 363
Lady Motor Cyclist, 363 Lessons from the Winter Trials, 1 Motor Cycle Engineering, 389 National Council, 203
Problem of a Runabout, The, 99 Placing Machines and Change-speed Gear,
559 Rear Suspension, 177
Reliability Trials, Open, 203 Riders’ Weights in the Tourist Trophy
Race, 437
Sidecars. See that title.
Six Days’ Record, The New, 461 Slide Valve Engines,. 125
Ten Feet Line at Brooklands, 587
—- Years’ Progress in Motor Cycle Design, 275
Trade and the Trials, 49, 251
“ Vivat Rex—Vivat Regina,” 611
LEADING MOTOR CYCLE CLUBS—
Birmingham M C.C., History of, 57
Bradford M.C.C , 207
Bristol B. and M.C., 133
Coventry and Warwickshire M.C , 350
Edinburgh M.C.C., 255
Glasgow M.C.C., 113
Great Yarmouth and District M.C.C., 159
Manchester M.C., 286
Newcastle and District M.C., Ltd., 235
North-west London M.C.C., 370
Oxford M.C.C., 86
Sheffield and Hallamshire M.C.C., 181
Sutton Coldfield A.C., 319
Leechman, G. D., Stability, 148, 199
Leicester Motor Cycle Show, 64, 140, 165

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR—

A.C. Users, Tip for, 568
Accessories, An Experience with Various,
85, 135 Act of Injustice, 445, 519
Amateur Opening Hill-climb Suggested, 519
Balancing of V Twin Engines, 520
Bread Delivery, Motor Cycles for, 371
Brooklands Wobble, The, 421 Canada, Motor Cycling in, 210 Carbon Deposits, Removing, 240 Cleaning and Overhauling a Motor Cycle,
38
Clubs, A Grumble Regarding, 138 Colonial Requirements, 105, 186, 212,261
Conversions, 212, 470, 596
Cost of running a Motor Clyde. Sec Motor Cycles.
Converted Tricars, 470
Criticisms on Sidecar Topics, 371 Crown Ash Hill, Climbing of, 347 Cylinders. See that title.
Dastardly Action, 210
Deposit System, 470
Dogs, Vicious, (521
Douglas, A Bigger, 595
I)rin Feed Lubrication, 5(57
Dutch Club’s Visit to the Isle of Man, 371. 421
— Motor Cyclists, Challenge to, 22. 35
Egypt, The Sidecar in, 301 Enthusiastic Owner’s Tribute, An, 85 Explanation, An, 213, 239
External Band Brakes, 445
Fibre, Trouble Caused by Damp, 210 Forced Induction, 83
Formula. Is a New One Wanted .' 670 Frame Design, 36
Guildford, %An Effective Smash at, 212 Halifax and District, Paving in, 269 Handicappers in Motor Cycle Races, 237 Hint, A Useful, 347
Horse-power Rating, 301 Improvements Needed, 24, 60 Ingratitude, 495
Insurance Policies, 22. 35, 621
Interchangeability of Tyres, 399, 421,519 International Reliability Trials, 322, 372 Lamplighting Wrinkle, A, 59 Lamps and Night Riding, 83
Liability of Sidecar Drivers, 421
Licences in “ Clean ” Counties, Renewing of, 82
Low Registration Numbers, 397
Madras Presidency, Motor Cycling in, 105 Maintenance of Power on Lightweights. 189, 24 0 Tune in Lightweights, 421
Mapholder, A Neat Weatherproof, 210
Motor Cycle Show in the North, The Suggested, 263, 321
Steamer, 261
— — Taxation, 186
— Cycling in Ceylon, 59
Mudguarding Devices, 82
Names and Initials, Confusion of, 212 Nitro-glycerine as a Motive Power, 237 Oil-treated Roads in California, 492 Old Boy’s Ride, 85
Organisation Scheme for Motor Cyclists,
263
Petrol Pipe, Mending Cracks in the, 59
Pinhole Punctures, How to Locate, 544
Premier Cycle Co., an Appreciation, 135
Preserving Plated Parts from Rust., 567
Pulleys, Undergeared, 22
Puncture-sealing Compound, 210
Quads, a Warning, 36 Reflex Rear Lights, 238 Remarkable Occurrence, 470
Riding Conditions in New South Wales, 492 Road Obstructions, 263
Roller Blind Mud Screen, 35
Roman Road to Edinburgh, 263
Rubber Belts in Australia, 322
Runabout, Problem of the, 187
Scavenging Devices, Mechanically- operated, 62, 85 '
Sidecar Licences, 187
Signposts, Direction, 240
Silencers, Efficiency of, 59
Silent Motor Cycle, 187
Single-cylinder Roadsters of 31 h.p. at Olympia, 37, 60
Single Gears and Sidecars, 35
Sixteen Thousand Miles with a 31 h.p. Sidecar, 105
South Africa, Motor Cycle in, 492
Sportsman or Potterer ? 34, 37, 60
Staggered Cylinders, 161. 188
Starting Devices, Easy, 135, 187
State of our Highways, 36, 60, 82
Steep Hills. In Search of, 349
Steering Design, 85
Stone Splinters on Wood Pavement s, 2(53
Strange Experience, 238
Sunday Competitions, 161
Tandem Seat Attachments, 23
Test Road for Motor Cycles, 567
Touring Machine, A Fast, 162
Tourist Trophy Mount, A Rakish-looking, 237
Race. See Auto Cycle I nion.
Transmission for the Colonies. 22 Tricar, The Perfect, 138
— to Sociable, From, 4 45
Twin-cylinder Sociables, 1(53-164, 188, 210, 264
Two-speed Douglas, Week-end on a. 213, 237
Two-stroke Engine, Good I'ert'ormanee of a New, 239

Tyres and Side-slips, 186

Valve Cotter Extractors, 371
Variable Compression Devices, 240 — Pulleys 189
Vertical Cylinders : Are they the Best ? 163, 188
Water-cooling the Exhaust Valve Cap,59 AV ater Freezing in Acetylene Generators, 135
Wax Vestas, Beware of. 621
Wind and Mud Shield, Another Design of, 161
Winter Equipment, 35
— Reliability Trials, 186
Wrong Impression, 519
Lover Action for Pedalling Gear, 65
Licences, “ Clean ” Counties, Renewing in,
82
— Sidecar, 187
Licensing Case, A Curious, 194 Lightweight Record, *A New, 606
The Advantages of, 437 T.T., 644
Lightweights, Alcyon, The New, 356
— Appreciation of, 262
— A.C.U. Trials, In the. 446
— Brown Lightweight, The New, 521
— 11 ill-climbs, in, 515, 567
— Home-made, A Promising. 213
— How to Test, 160
— Experience with, 348
— (Ira nd ex-Precision, 356
— Italian Lightweight Definitions, 353
Lightweight in 1910, The, by B. H. Davies, 5
— Maintenance of Tune in, 421
— Power. Loss of, 208
Maintenance of, 189, 240
What are they '? 318, 347
Lights. Reflex Rear, 238
Lister-Cooper, 11. See Cooper, II. Lister. Liverpool A.C.C., Local Police and, 447
London Clubhouse Scheme, 352
Factories, A Run Round some, 528
Long Distance Records, 546
Speed in. 463 Harry, Coast Ride, 548
Long Distance Records, Speed in, 463
Longuemare, Madame. Death of, 215
Loughborough. T. W., Modern Motor Cycle, The, 380
Lubrication. 516, 582, 632
Bengal Reader’s Suggestion , 240
— Brooker. ,T. W. G., Summary of a Lecture by, 244
— Castor Oil for, 200
Drip Feed, 567
— Forced, 32
— Hub and Crank Case, 248
— Methods of. 422
— Overheating and Unequal 334
Luggage Problem Solving the 90
Lycett Trophy Competition. See Birmingham M.C.C.

McNab. F. A.. Attempt on the Two Hours’ Record, 167
Madras Presidency, Motor Cycling in, 105 Magnetos. Connections, 582
— Cont nd. 491
— Cylinders, Behind the, 21, 35, 62
— Defects in, 346
— Invaluable Tip. 182
— Mea, The. 112
New British Made. 540
— Pitting of Contacts. 47
— Position of, 2-4. 59. 79. 322
— Slow Running and. 26
— Small. 173
— Suiting to the Engine. 96
— Testing. 419. 442
Timing of. 311. 516. 593. 644
— U.H.. The. 30
— Weather proof. 342
Manchester M.C.C., Hill-climb at Hayden Bridge, 552
Mann. Horace H., In the Wilds of North Devon. 204-206. 229-232
Manufacturers' Union and the Quarterly Trials, 445
Mapholder. A Neat Weatherproof. 210
Married (A urles who Motor Cycle Ulus. 643. 670
Martin, Harry
— Breaks the Standing Mile British Record. 400
— Tourist Trophy Race and, 214
— Matchless T.T. Machine, 561
Matchless v. Zenith, 660
Maurer, J., on his Sleigh fitted with a Twin-cylinder V Type Air-cooled Motor Cycle Engine (illus.), 214
Mersey Motor Club 'Week-end Meeting at Clegg Arms, Cheshire (illus.), 507
Metropolitan Police and Slow Traffic, 631
Midland Reliability Trial, Conditions of, 220-222
Midlands, Progress in the, 391, 484
Military Motor Cycling Notes, by “ Cele- riter,” 539
- Purposes, The Motor Cycle for, 253
Milligan, John L., Variable Gears and Slipping Clutches, 93
Misfiring, 442
— Caused by Damp Fibre, 143
Models, Alldays’ New 3.1 h.p. Model, 635
— Humber, 526
— Why Colonial are Necessary, 545
— Wulfruna, 585
Modern Motor Cycle, The, 380
Mongolia, Through, by Motor Cycle, by Prof. E. J. Nystrom, 74-77, 101-103, 126-129
Motor Cycle Engineering, 389
Steamer, 348
Taxation. See Motor Cycles
Terms Illustrated, 311
Motor Cycle Union of Ireland (Ulster Centre)—
Second Quarterly Trial, 111
Start of the Reliability Run and Hillclimb to Ballycastle (illus.), 531
Motor Cycles, Aeroplane v., in U.S.A., 97
Amateur’s Design of a Gear-driven, 347
Antipodes, in the, 84
Are the Modern Perfect ? by B. H. Davies, 80
Argentine Republic, in the, 161
Ariel, and its Decompressor, 343
Cleaning and Overhauling, 38, 79; 135
Cost of Running, 24, 36, 60, 84, 106, 134, 137, 163, 262
De Havilland, 367
Design of, Suggestions for Improving, 106
Ten Years’ Progress in, 275, 280-285
Exports and Imports of, 41, 43, 266, 375, 478, 503, 600
January, 167
Features of the Leading American, 140
Finding Faults in, 109
Four-cylinder V Type Two-stroke Engine with Scavenging Device, an Ambitious yet Simple Design of, 156- 158
— — Future, 453
Gear-driven. An Amateur’s Design of, 261
Greasing New, 160
Ideal, The, 213
Machine of the Future, 227
Military Purposes, foT, 254
Modern : Are they Perfect ? 106
Old Pattern Machines. Improving, 77, 106, 371, 495
Open Frame. 321
Passenger, 83, 94, 136
Attachments, 25
Differential Gears and, 198, 263
Why not Steam ? 35, 62
Second-hand, 70, 202
Singer, A New 24 hp., 474
Sociables, Twin-cylinder, 163, 188, 210, 239, 264
South Africa, in, 492
Standard 34 h.p. James, Details of, 257
Steam-propelled. 107, 162, 174
Stolen. 41. 140, 242. 448. 524, 549, 570. 661. 672
Taxation, 113, 135, 153, 186, 210, 264
Test Roads for, 567
Touring Machine, A Fast, 162
Weatherproof, 138
— Cycling in Ceylon, 59
— Temperature below Zero, 324
Motor Cycling Club. 181
Annual General Meeting, 68 Eighth Team Trial. 234
Inter-club Team Trial. 258, 302, 462
London-Edinburgh-London Run, 269, 449, 595, 600
Awards, 617, 661
London-Edinburgh-London Bun, Dig. qualifications in, 631
Entries, 478, 554
— — In Yorkshire during the, 610
Notes, 352
Suggested Route for, 22
— — Passenger Machines (illus.), 589 Report (illus.), 572-576 London-Exeter Winter Run, 44, 62 Competitors’ Experiences, 7-11 Passengers in the, Concerning
22, 37
— Result of, 10, 90
London-Land’s End Trial,375, 405-406b
422, 487 —? Awards in, 432
Contour Section of the New Route between Exeter and Liskeard
339 -— Route for, 215
Members’ Hill-climb at Kop Hill, Re- suits and Report, 496
Programme for 1911, 155
Team Trial, 660
Entries, 603
List of Competing Teams, 620
Photographs of Teams in, 667
— — Report (illus.), 624. 626
Motor Cyclists, Hints and Tips for, 481, Letters from, in Far-off Lands,
Selection of, 493-495
Military, 140
Organisation Scheme for, 263 Roller Skater v., 26, 166, 267 Signalling for, 322
— Union and Automobile Association,
Amalgamation, 14, 63, 107
Mudguards, 54, 82, 202
— Artistic Outline in, 208
— Detachable Side, 152
— Hinged Back, 593
— Roller Blind Mud Screen, 35
— Wind and Mud Shield, Another Design
of, 161
My Ideal Motor Cycle, by R. Rude, 156- 158, 386

Nail Catchers and Damage to Tyres, 672
Names and Initials, Confusion of, 212
Natal, Hill-climb in, 90
National Motoring Council, 479
New, E. S., 16,000 Miles with a 3jh.p. Sidecar, 50-54
Newson, W. F., Attempt on the Hour Record, 527
New South Wales, Hill-climb in, 15, 41
Riding Conditions in, 492
— Zealand, British Success in, 327
Motor Cycle in, 493
Trials in, 15, 243
Twenty-four Hours Trial in, 631, 661
Night Riding and Lamps, 83
Nitro-glycerine as a Motive Power, 237, 321
Nomenclature, 479
Normandy, Three Nomads in, 638-643
Northern League of Motor Cyclists, 194
Auto Cycle Union and, 413
General Meeting, 328
Meeting at York, 245 Programme for 1911, 258
Richmond 1911 Meet, 403
North-west London M.C.C.—
Herts County A.C. v., 197 London to Coventry and Back Run, 523 Results, 538
Twelve Hours’ Ruu to Gloucester and Back, 17-19
Nottingham Speed Trials, 511 Novelties, Some Interesting, 268
N.S.U. Automatic Carburetter 552,
Nuts, Some Tiresome, 134
Nyasaland. Road Race in, 41
Nystrom, Prof. E. J., Through Mongolia by Motor Cycle, 74-77

Oakamoor. Inter-club Hill-climb at, 546b

OCCASIONAL COMMENTS—

Alternative Magneto Timings., 644
Automatic Carburetters, 342
Boycotting Infinitely Variable Gears, 27 ?
Carbonisation and its Cure, 104
Colonial Needs, 208, 256
Continental Holidays, 316
Cui Bono ? 515
Cycle Couplers, 31
Detachable Two-speed Gears, 342
Drip Feed Oil Pumps. 279, 366
Duet on the Carburetter, 104
External Band Brakes, 416
Firmax as a Puncture Sealer, 616
Flaws in Existing Rear Springing
Methods, 236
Frame Design, 31
Free-engine Criticism, 366
Grumble, Another, 416
Greasing the New Machine, 160
Ringed Baek Mudguards, 593
Hub Lubricants, 392
Jets, One Big or Many Small, 236
Long Distance Road Records, 316
Magnetos. See that title.
Medical Aspects of Six Days Records,
Undergeared Pulleys and Diameter Belt Rims, 55
Weatherproof Magnetos, 342
Winter Reliability Trials, 31 Wheels, Easily Detachable, 182
Oil, Escapes of, 248
— Freezing, How to Prevent, 446
— Pumps, Drip Feed, 279, 373 Pressure Feed to, 349
— Tapless, 213 Old Machines. See Motor Cycles Olympia Motor Show, Single-cylinder 3|h.p. Roadsters at, 37, 60
One Thousand Miles without Opening the Toolbag, 474
Two Hundred and Ninety Miles in Six Days on Irish Roads, 355
Overheating, 200, 225
— A Case of, 226
— Unequal Lubrication and, 334 Oxford M.C.C.—
Irondown Hill-climb, 247
Entries for, 328
Results, 268
Open Hill-climb at Kop Hill, 247, 328, 376-379, 41 1

Passenger Classes at Hill-climbs, 568
— See Motor Cycles.
Patching versus Vulcanising, 616

PATENTS, by Eric W. Walford—

Auto-wheel, The Latest Wall, 72
B.S.A. Filler Cap, 636
Centaur Hub Clutch, 558
Chain Belt, 436
Double Purpose Stand, 558
Hand Starter, An Effective, 436
Hub Plate Clutch, 636
Live Axle without Differential Gear, A Simple, 436
Map and Route Card Holder, 558
Pulley Two-speed Gears, 72
Pedley Tyre, The, 462
Pekin to Lake Baikal by Motor Cycle, by Prof. E. J. Nystrom, 74-77
Pennington, E. J., Death of, 326
Petrol, Blowback, 443
— Constituents of, 423
— Consumption of, Excessive, 542
— Cracks in the Pipe, Mending, 59, 261
— Leakage, 442
— Shops Bill and, 570 gmall Quantities, 422
— Solidified, 323
Stoppage in Supply, A, 46
Pining Foi^‘cylinder Motor Cycle, 54
Pill01? °5 Tandein Seat, A, 418, 471
Pinhole Punctures, 463, 515
How to Locate, 495
Piston Rings, Fit of, 225
New, 172
Plated Parts, Preserving from Rust,
Platinum Points, Adjustment of, 609
Police Traps, 191, 327, 360, 400, 431,
549,
Metropolitan, 352
Some Comments on, 360
Portmarnock, Racing at, 546b.
— Speed Trials at, 453
Potterer or Sportsman ? 34, 37, 60,
Power, Loss of, 226, 312 on Hills, 25 Lightweights, 208
— Maintenance of, on Lightweights, 340
— Nitro-glycerine as a Motive, 237, 321
— Sidecar Work, for, 124
Precision Engine and Plates, 257
Premier Free-engine Hub Clutch, 170
Pretoria, Race from Johannesburg to, 581
Prendergast, J. A., Restarting on Sutton Bank, 243
Preparing for the Road, 290-292
Prince Henry Cup Tour, 141
Private Riders of the Auto Cycle Union, 21, 662
Professional v. Amateur Riders, 369
Pulleys, Crude Adjustable, 644
— How to Remove, 225
Undergeared, 22, 55
Diameter of Belt Rims for, 55
— Variable, 189
Pumps, Drip Feed. See Oil
Punctures, Firmax as a Puncture Sealer, 616
— Home-made Sealer, 593
— Pinhole, 463, 495, 515, 544
Quad cars, ('hater-Lea, 553
— Light Air-cooled, 545
— L.M., The, 63
— Robinet, The (illus.), Ill
— See Spider.
Quads, a Warning, 36
Quarterly Trials. See Auto Cycle Union. and Tourist Trophy Races, Manufacturers’ Decisions, 244

Racing Machines and Change-speed Gears, 559, 595
Rear Springing Devices, 178-180, 238 Hydraulic, 236
Flaws in, 236
— Suspension, 177
— Wheel and Tyre Trouble, How to
Avoid, 211
Recollections of an Irish Tour, 518
Records, American, in 1910, 56
Rejected, 214
— Catt, A. E., Six Days’ Record. See Catt, A. E.
— A.C.U. Decision re Road, 215
— End-to-end, 546, 603, 618
— Fifty Miles Class C Record Beaten, 661
— Flying Kilometre, 546, 597
— Hour, Attempt on the, 400, 553
— Lightweight, A New, 606
— Long Distance Road Records, 316, 444,
546 7 — Speed in, 463
— Harry Martin, Breaks Standing Mile
British Record, 400
— Motor Cycle, for 1910, 12, 42
— Single-cylinder Hour, A New, 449
— Six Days’, 603, 627
Lightweight Record, 626
~ — Hours Track Record Beaten, 453
Reflex Lights, Tests of, 185
Registration, 96
— Numbers, Low, 397, 472
Repair Outfit, 202
Results, Errors in Issuing, 389
Rex Motor-Cycle Works, Reorganisation of
Richmond Meet (1911), 194
Riders Weights in the Tourist Trophy Race, 437, 520
Road Board, Grants from the, 166, 453
— Dangers at Night, 401, 568, 616
Records, A.C.U. Decision re, 215
— Rider, Touring Tips, 668.
? Surveyors, Motor Cycles for, 15
Roads, Obstructions in, 263, 316
— Open the, 313
— State of our Highways, 36, 60, 82
Roc Tricycle, Trials of, 627 Roller Blind Mud Screen, 35
— Skater v. Motor Cyclist, 26, 166, 267 Roman Road to Edinburgh, 263
Rom Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., Prizes for
the T.T. Race, 549
Rotax Lamp and Generator, 418
Round the Coast of England, Scotland,
and Wales, 489
Routes—
— Bournemouth to Dover, 582
— Kettering to Sheffield, 582
— Lancashire to South Devon, 583
— Welwyn to Harrogate, 610
Rover Co., Ltd., About the New Rover, 87
— Racing Cyclists’ Club Sports at Aston,
Misunderstanding re, 502
Royal Automobile Club—
Reflex Lights, Tests of, 185
Seventh Provincial Meeting, 522 Taxation Conference, 167
Royal Enfield, On the Road with New, 67
Rubber, Preservation of, 541
Rude, R., My Ideal Motor Cycle, 156-158 Criticisms, 386
Runabouts, Four-wheeled Light, Problem of the, 99, 104, 108, 123, 163, 187
— Gordon, The, 224
— New Pattern, 462
— Tandem-seated, 464
— Turner, The, 233
Run on a Water-cooled Sidecar Combination, 368
— Round some London Factories, 528
Russell Edgar, Novel Way of Starting his
Machine, 214
Rust, Preserving Plated Parts from, 621

Saddle Seat, A New, 356
Scarborough and District M.C.C.—
— Gymkhana, Photographs, 556
— Kilometre Speed Trial, 608
Scavenging Device, A Mechanically - operated, 62, 85, 107, 162
Scotland, England, and Wales, Round the Coast of, 489
Scott, A. M. C., Contour Section of the New Route between Exeter and Liskeard in the London-Land’s End- London Run, 339
Scott-Robinson Carburetter, The New, 393
Scottish Six Days’ Trials, Great Reforms in, 538, 597, 671
Scrap Steel on the Highways, 470
Shaft Drive, Disadvantages of, 173
Shap Fell Hill-climb, 353, 406b
— — — Result of, 432
Sharpe, Edmund, Pioneer Motor Cyclist,467
Shaw, H. D., Starting in the Leeds M.C.C.
Speed Trial (illus.), 530
Sheffield and Hallamshire M.C.C., 181 Hill-climb at Edale, Starting Point (illus.), 533
Winter Reliability Trial, 20
Shelsley Walsh Open Hill-climb, 598
Shetland Hills, Climbing Two Noted, 369
Sidecar Drivers, Liability of, 421, 446, 447
Sidecars, Attachments, Fitting, 25
— Rear Seat Preferred, 37, 109 Tax and, 82
— Change-speed Gears and, 596, 623, 670
— Choice of, 151
— Combination, A Luxurious, 390
— Criticisms on Sidecar Topics, 371
— Driving from, 200
— Egypt, in, 301
— Fittings, Quickly Detachable, 500
— Flexible, 443
— Growing Popularity of, 177
— Hill-climbs, in, 515
— Horse-power for Sidecar Work, 172
— Licences, A.C.U. Solicitor’s Views, 85
— Motor Cycle and Sidecar for Bread Delivery, 318
— Power for, 124
— Rigid or Castor Wheel, 335
— Single Gears and, 35
— Single or Two-speed Gears with, 334
— Sixteen Thousand Miles with a 3.1 h.p. Sidecar, 50-54
— Spring Forks and, 311
— Starting with, 420
— Suggestions, by Beatrice Langston and P. W. Bischoff, 276
— Taxation, 89, 201
— Three-speed Water-cooled Machine 394
— Two-seater, 314
Water-cooled, Run on a, 368
Signalling for Motor Cyclists, 322, 349
Signposts, Originality in regard to, 567
Silencers, Blue Flame from the, 272 Efficiency of, 59
— Fitting Extra Pipes, 237
~ Position of, 225
Singer Co. and Change Speed Gears 503
— A New 2 J h.p., 474
Single-cylinder Hour Record, A New, 449
-— Roadsters of 31 h.p. at Olympia, 37, 60
Six Days’ Record, The New, 461, 603
Sixteen Thousand Miles with a 31 h.p. Sidecar, 50-54, 105
Sleigh-cum-Motor Cycle-cum-Aeroplane (illus.), 98
Slide Valve Engines. See Engines
Slow Running, Adjustments for, 490
— Traffic, Metropolitan Police Decision, 631
Smith, F. W., going well in the Oxford, M.C.C. Open Hill-climb (illus.), 377
- Harry, Presentation of Cup to M.C.C., 630
Snaefell Mountain, Climbing, 549
Sociables, Twin-cylinder, 163, 188, 210, 239, 264
— I-Iill-climbing and, 397
Sopwith, T., Winner of Baron de Forest’s £4,000 Prize, 14
South-east London M.C.C. Open Hill-climb at Vigo Hill, 501
South London M.C.C’. Open Hill-climb, 452
Southport, Police Activity in, 299
Spark, Advancing and Retarding, 97
— An Errant, 70
— Lever, Position of, 490
— Position, The Maximum, 334
Sparking Plugs, Remedy for Oily, 322 Spectacles, Blurred, 70
Speed Limits, Sussex,’ New, for, 14
— — Ten-mile, 108, 525.
— — Timing Speed Events, The Problem of, 314, 467, 666
— Trials, Clipstone, 602
— Grimsthorpe Park, 546a
Speedometers, Drive, The Latest, 30
Spider Quad, Is it coming to Stay ? by B. H. Davies, 536, 618, 622
— Reply, 594
Sportsman or Potterer ? 34, 37, 60, 79, 82, 100
Spring Fork, A New, 489
— — Attachments and Sidecars, 491
Sidecars and, 311
- Triumph Improvements, 274
Stability, 148, 182, 199, 232, 239, 321
Stanley, G. E., Fifty Miles Class C Record beaten by, 661
Starting Difficulties, 97, 226, 249, 269, 273, 301, 335, 396, 469
— Easy Devices for, 135, 172
— Motor Cycle Engines, 546, 596
— Sidecars, with, 420
— Sluggish, 151, 516
Staxton Hill-climb, 409
— — Competitors Rounding the Corner (illus.), 422
Steam-propelled Motor Cycles. See Motor Cycles
Steamer, The Motor Cycle, 261
Steering Design, 85
Stewart, Lieut., R.N., Six Hours’ Track Record Beaten by, 453_
Stolen Motor Cycles. See Motor Cycles
Stoupe Brow, Inspection of, 353
— - Is it a Fair Test ? 430
— Recent Attempts to Climb, 447
— — Six Days’ Trials and, 448
Streatham M.C.C., Surrey M.C.C. and, Team Trial, 142
Sunday Closing of Garages, 525
Surrey M.C.C., Streatham M.C.C. and Team Trial. 142
Surridge, Victor J. — Death of, 658
— Holder of the Hour Record, 553
— Rudge-Whitworth Dinner to Celebrate Record, 599
Sussex, New Speed Limits in, 14
Sutton Bank, Inter-club Competition at, 191
— — One Hundred Ascents in Seven and a Half Hours, 551
— Quarterly Trials and, 444
Sutton Coldfield A.C.— Hill-climb at Coalport, 522
— Open Reliability Run, 170, 193
Swaying Sensation when Riding, 160
Swift, H. V., Six Days’ Lightweight Record, 626, 661

T.A.C., A Trial of the, 168
Tandem or Pillion Seat, 418, 471
— Seat Attachments, 23
Taunton and District M.C.C., Group at the Opening Run of the (illus.), 533 Taxation Concessions, 21, 135
— Question of, 113
Ten Feet Line at Brooklands, 587, 630
Miles Speed Limit, The Proposed, 525
Tessier, S. T., Illustrating a Common Expression, “All out” (illus.), 511
Three Nomads in Normandy, 638, 462
Thunder, Al. IT., Saved by his Motor Cycle, 524
Timing Speed Events, The Problem of, 314, 353, 401
— Problem, 314, 353, 401, 666
— dips, by Road Rider., 668
— Wheel, Removing a, 150 Toolkits, Necessary Addition to, 444
Torbay Motor Cyble Club Reliability Trial
to Truro and Back, 406b
Touring Preparations for, 290-292
Tourist Trophy* Race. See under Auto Cycle Union
Races and Quarterly Trials, Manufacturers’ Decisions, 244
Trade and the Trials, 49, 251
— v. Amateurs, 504, 509, 529
Tramlir.es, Dangerous, 670
Transmission, Non-slipping, 200
Transvaal, Short Trip in the, 564-566
— The Motor Cycle in, 327 Trembler and Plain Coil, 70
Trials Trifles, 428 Tricar Tax, 420
Tricars, Novel Design of, 215
— Tandem, 243
Triumph Spring Fork Improvement, 274
Trouser Shields, 169, 563
Trump-Jap Racer, A 1911, 175
Turner Runabout, 233
Twin-cylinder Hobart, The New, 45
— Sociables, 138, 163, 188, 210, 239, 264
Two-speed Douglas, Week-end on a, 183, 237
Two-stroke Engines, Facts about, by B. H. Davies, 69
Two Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty-seven Miles in Six Days, 498
Tyres, Gordon Non-skid Cover, 336
— Interchangeability of, 363, 399, 421, 445, 519
— “ Midland ” New Non-skid Rubber-studded, 202
— Nail Catchers and Damage to Tyres, 672
— Passenger Outfits, Tyre Troubles on, 256
— Pedley, The, 462
— Sideslip and, 186, 238, 264
— Stability in Grease, 123
— Troubles with Back Wheel and : How to Avoid it, 211

U. H. Magneto, 30

Valve Stretching and Carburation, 557
Valves, Adjustment of, 249
— Air-cooled Piston Valve Engines, 129
— Chest Design, 265
— Combination Inlet and Exhaust, 320, 349
— Cooling Devices, 274, 321
— Cotter Extractors, 371
— Exhaust. Broken, 593
— Lift of, 173
— — Novel Design of, 169
— Seating of, 150
— Timing of, 542
— Grinding of, 80, 97
— Overhead, on Touring Engines, 272
— Piston Valve Motor Cycle Engine, The First, 4'35
— Slide Valve Engines, 89, 125, 132, 164, 298, 302
— — Dome, The, 132
— — First Motor Cycle, 298, 302 Possibilities of the, 130-132
— Spring Tightener, 202
— Springs, Weak, 419
— Tension of Valve Springs, 201
— Timing, 150, 311
— Water-cooled Exhaust Valve Cap, 59, 516
Variable Compression Device, 194
Victoria M.C.C. Summer Competition, 65
Villiers’ Hub Clutch, 192
“ Vivat Rex, Vivat Regina,” 611
Vulcanising versus Patching, 616

Wales, England, and Scotland, Round the Coast of, 489
Walker, Roy, London-Exeter Winter Run, Tale of the, 7-9
Walthamstow M.C. Hill-climb at Low Hill* Results, 528
Water-cooled Sidecar Combination, Run on a, 368
Water Freezing in Acetylene Generators, 135
Weather, Wind, and Darkness, 28
Westcliffe-on-Sea, Opening Air Ranking, 15
Westmorland M.C.C., Shap Fell Hill-climb, Prizes for, 167
Wheels, Easily Detachable, 182
— Which is it that Lifts ? 397, 345, 446
Wilberforce, V., Winner of the 65 m.p.h.
Handicap at Brooklands (illus ), 416
Wild-fowling, a Sportsman’s Use for his Motor Cycle, 287-289
Willesden Green M.C.C., Surviving Competitors in the 100 Miles Reliability Trial (illus.), 507
Wind and Mud Shield, Another Design of, 161
Winning Team, Finding a, by B. H. Davies, 338
Winter Equipment, 35
— Reliability Trials, 31, 160, 186
— How Riders set about Conquering Adverse Conditions, 28
— Lessons from the, 2
— Success of, 125
Witham, S. A. M., Challenge to Jake de Rosier, 40
Woodhouse, J. W., in Sutton Coldfield A.C. Hill-climb (illus.), 524
Worcestershire, Police Activity in, 166
Wright, S., London-Exeter Winter Run,
Experiences of, 10
Wulfruna Models, 585

Bert Yates, Attempt on the Hour Lightweight Record, 527
Yorkshire M.C.C. Quarterly Trials, 180, 190
— as she is Spoke, 364

Zenith versus Matchless, 660

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