1899 Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland
From Graces Guide
Note: This is a sub-section of the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland
1899 November 8th. The house journal then called Automobile Notes and Notices first published.
House Dinner held on Wednesday the 11th January 1899
Those present were:
- Percy Northey. Read a paper on Accumulators.
- W. H. Preece C.B., F.R.S., Engineer in chief to the Post Office.
- Roger W. Wallace Chairman of the club
- Frederick Simms
- J. C. Badcock Controller of London postal service department
- J. J. Cardin C.B. Controller and accountant general of the G.P.O.
- Henry Sturmey
- J. Harvey
- W. H. Arnold
- F. H. Butler
- Herbert Capel
- W. J. Crompton
- W. T. S. Firth
- J. M. Gorham
- C. Heyermans
- C. Oppermann
- H. Hautrey J.P.
- H. Hewetson
- Ernest Instone
- A. Ledger
- W. J. Leonard
- C. H. Moore
- J. MacManus
- P. MacManus
- Robert E. Phillips
- A. C. Poole
- J. Lyons Sampson
- Stanley Spooner
- H. Smith
- F. W. J. Woolff
- Clark-Kennedy, Colonel
- Dyke-Acland, Major
- C. E. Johnson, Secretary
House Dinner held on 8th February 1899
Those present:
- Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton in the Chair
- Roger W. Wallace
- Frederick Simms
- Richard Paget Bart.
- J. H. A. MacDonald The Right Honourable. C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.S. The Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland
- C. Vernon Boyse, Professor, F.R.S.
- H. C. L. Holden, Major. R.A., F.R.S.
- Leon Serpollet
- Dyke-Acland, Major
- William Worby Beaumont M.Inst.I.E.
- S. F. Beevor
- T. B. Browne
- Herbert Capel
- Claude Crompton
- S. F. Edge
- Frank Fraser
- R. N. Hankinson
- Harold Heatly
- George Hopkins
- Ernest Instone
- J. H. Knight
- Alfred Ledger
- J. M. MacLulich
- Henry Jervis Mulliner
- R. Muirhead M.I.M.E.
- Arthur Paget
- Robert E. Phillips A.M.I.C.E.
- A. C. Poole
- Marc B. Rey
- J. Lyons Sampson, M.I.M.E.
- Holroyd Smith M.I.M.E.
- E. R. Tebbitt
- Henry Sturmey
- E. Townsend
- C. E. Johnson, Secretary
8th March 1899
Discussion on 'Brakes for Automobile vehicles'[1] and 'Pneumatic Tyres as Applied to Automobiles'.[2]
Those present:
- Vernon Boyse F.R.S. Professor. Chairman.
- Frederick Simms
- H. F. Julian
- H. T. Davies
- H. Capel
- F. H. Butler
- C. Cordingley
- Henry Sturmey
- W. W. Beaumont
- Harry J. Swindley
- Alfred F. Bird
- A. E. Hemmings
- J. L. Sampson
- R. Muirhead
- R. M. Buttemer
- E. E. Lefebure
- A. C. Poole
- S. R. Roget
- Charles Jarrott
- J. M. McLulich
- England, General
- Dr. Lehwess, Doctor
- Gugald Clark
- C. Johnson, Secretary
1899 Whitsuntide run. Long description with many names. Route selected by Alfred F. Bird[3]
Recent Members (17th June)
- Duke of Manchester
- Rupert Guinness, Honerable
- Arthur de Rothschild, Baron
- Mark Mayhew
- Charles E. Mumford
- Thomas B. Drybrough
- Frederick Thomas Bidlake
- Thomas Ritchie
- Harry Leitner
- C. P. Dawson, Major
- Bertrand J. P. Roberts
- Frederick Lanchester
- Tom Sharatt
- Joseph S. Taylor
- Albert A. Jordan
- James Whitfield
- Charles R. Hutchings
- Allan Whitfield
- Archibald Millership
- C. R. D'Esterre
- Robert B. Bird
- S. B. Shelton
- Emile Garcke
- A. Valintine
See Also
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Sources of Information
- The Autocar magazine of 14th January 1899
- The Autocar magazine of 11th February 1899
- The Autocar magazine of 18th March 1899
- The Autocar magazine of 17th June 1899