EARLY members of the Keighley and District Motor Club – which, despite its title and inclusion of some car-owners, was largely supported by motorcyclists – have accompanied members of the Keighley and District Photographic Association on a charabanc outing in this picture.
The rider with the side-car has decorated his handlebars with foliage.
The Motor Club was founded in 1920, the year that Keighley Town Council attempted to impose a 10mph speed limit in main thoroughfares, amid complaints that pedestrians were being “bespattered from head to foot” and shop windows “splashed out of all recognition” by speeding traffic.
The secretary of the Keighley Motor Club blandly suggested that “the cure is to put the roads in such condition that water does not collect in pools to splash”.
The speed limit was rejected.
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