Cycle Touring Club Archive

[ian peacock]

Is there such a thing as the CTC archive, and if so, how can it be accessed? I am looking for "Cycle Touring" magazine articles from around 1987 to 1990.

[PH]

The archive is held at the University of Warwick, 430 boxes of stuff, I don't know how you access it, I don't think it's been digitised.
https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/CTC

Anything in particular you were looking for?

[Philip Benstead]

Is there such a thing as the CTC archive, and if so, how can it be accessed? I am looking for "Cycle Touring" magazine articles from around 1987 to 1990.

Which article are you looking for?

[ken66]

Cyclists' Touring Club/Cycling UK, 1772-2018

The ‘hobby horse’ didn’t materialise until around 1820 so what documentation associated with cycling existed before that, ie from 1772?

[backnotes]

According to the linked Warwick archive:

Includes: original printed sheet (cropped) from the Universal Magazine, 1774, describing a machine "to travel without horses", invented by Mr Ovenden (illustration not present).

There’s a picture of Ovenden’s Machine in here:https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_St ... _the_Cycle

Looks like it was an idea rather than a thing that was actually built.