Archived NAVCC History

A breif archived history of the club starting with the inaugural meeting held on the 8th April 1956 at the Village Hall at Meriden

A BRIEF ARCHIVED HISTORY OF THE NAVCC

The NAVCC was established at an inaugural meeting held on the 8th April 1956 at the Village Hall at Meriden. A total of 19 persons attended representing the following veteran cycle clubs; Bawtry, Coventry, Peterborough and Southern. With representatives from the Pickwick Bicycle Club and Cyclists’ Touring Club.

The affiliation fee set at 2 guineas per club and the Association funds at the end of the first year was £5.17s.9d (£5.89). Within the first two years three new clubs were affiliated; Bantel Veteran Cycle Club, Oundle Wheelers Veteran Cycle Club and Long Sutton & District Veteran Cycle Club.

The Association’s objective is to co-ordinate the aims and activities of the constitute bodies and members, to publish such aims and activities, to initiate or help with suitable activities, to provide insurance to affiliated clubs to enable rides and activities, co-ordinate and support the affiliated clubs to plan, organise and stage the National Rally and assist in forming clubs of veteran and vintage cycle enthusiasts in those parts of the country not presently served by such clubs.


AFFILIATED CLUBS

Affiliated Clubs Diamond Jubilee Year 2016.

(Year of establishment and year of affiliation to the NAVCC)

  • Peterborough Vintage Cycle Club (1953, affiliated 1956)
  • Long Sutton & District Veteran Cycle Club (1957, affiliated 1958)
  • Benson Veteran Cycle Club (1958, affiliated 1963)
  • Boston Veteran Bicycle Club (1964, affiliated 1965)
  • Bygone Bykes Yorkshire Club (1966, affiliated 1972)
  • Desford Lane Pedallers Veteran Cycle Club (1976 affiliated 1980)
  • March Vintage & Veteran Cycle Club (1983, affiliated 1983)
  • Solent Veteran Bicycle & Tricycle Club (1987, affiliated 1987)
  • Northern Counties Veteran & Classic Cycle Club (2007, affiliated 2007)

Affiliated Clubs 1956 – 2016.

(Year of affiliation, according to National Rally programme)

  • Bawtry Veteran Cycle Club (1956 – 1961)
  • Coventry Veteran Cycle Club (1956 – 1970)
  • Southern Veteran Cycle Club (1956 – 1958 and 1959 – 1973)
  • Bantel Veteran Cycle Club (1958 – 1964)
  • Oundle Wheelers Veteran Cycle Club (1958 – 1964)
  • Leicester Veteran Cycle Club (1971 – 1972)
  • Roadfarers Veteran Cycle Club (1971 – 1976)
  • Belton Museum Veteran Cycle Club (1980 – 1988)
  • Belvoir Bicyclists (1988 – 2003)*
  • Northleach Olde Tyme Wheelers (1991 – 2012)
  • Veteran Cycle Racing Club (2003 – 2006)
  • Veteran-Cycle & Racing Club (2006 – 2013)
  • Retro Cycle Club (2013 – 2016)**

* The Belvoir Bicyclists were originally called the Belton Museum Veteran Cycle Club. In 2005 the Belvoir Bicyclists ceased to exist.
** The Retro Cycle Club was originally called the Veteran Cycle Racing Club and later the Veteran – Historic Cycle and Racing Club.


NON AFFILIATED CLUBS

Between 1958 and 1963 the National Rally was open to riders from other clubs, although these clubs were not affiliated to the NAVCC they were referenced in the Rally programme.

The programme for 1960 only refers to affiliated clubs; Coventry Veteran Cycle Club, Bantel Veteran Cycle Club, Peterborough Vintage Cycle Club, Southern Veteran Cycle Club, Long Sutton & District Veteran Cycle Club and Oundle Wheelers Veteran Cycle Club, therefore it is not known if non-affiliated clubs rode that year.

Non Affiliated Clubs

  • Antique Bicycle Club of America (1958, 1959, 1961, 1962)
  • Bourne Wheelers Cycling Club (1962)
  • Boston Wheelers Cycling Club (1961, 1962, 1963)
  • British Cycling Federation (1963)
  • British Cycle Industries Association (1961)
  • Century Road Club (1963)
  • Charlotteville Cyclist Club (1963)
  • Cheltenham & County Cycling Club (1961)
  • Cirencester Poenix (sic) Cycling Club (1962)
  • Cyclists’ Touring Club (1958, 1959, 1962, 1963)
  • Fenland Clarion Cycling & Athletic Club (1963)
  • Forty Plus Cycle Club (1958, 1959, 1962)
  • Glendene [Glendede] Cycling Club (1958, 1959)
  • Goodmayes Wheelers [Cycling Club] (1959, 1962, 1963)
  • Hemel Hempstead Cycling Club (1962, 1963)
  • Ilford Road Club (1959)
  • King’s Lynn Cycle Club (1959, 1963)
  • National Clarion Cycling Club (1958, 1959, 1962, 1963)
  • Oundle Velo (1962)
  • Pickwick Bicycle Club (1958, 1959, 1963)
  • Peterborough Cycling Club (1958, 1959, 1962, 1963)
  • Peterborough Olympic Road Club (1958, 1959)
  • Polytechnic Cycling Club (1963)
  • Rough Stuff Fellowship (1958, 1959, 1963)
  • Sheffield Central Cycle Club (1958, 1959)
  • South Bucks Road Club (1963)
  • Spalding Cycling Club (1962, 1963)
  • Speedwell Bicycle Club (Gloucester) (1961)
  • Tricycle Association (1958, 1959, 1962, 1963)
  • Veteran Time Triallists (sic) Association (1958, 1959, 1963)
  • Walton Athletic & Cycling Club (1958, 1959)
  • Waybridge Wheelers Cycling Club (1963)
  • West Sussex Road Club (1958, 1959)
  • West Twickenham Road Club (1962)
  • Weybridge Wheelers Cycling Club (1959, 1962)
  • Wisbech Wheelers Cycle Club (1959, 1963)
  • Women’s Tricycle Association (1958, 1959, 1962, 1963)
  • Vegetarian Cycle & Athletics Club (1958, 1959)

At the 50th Anniversary National Rally in 2006 the Dandy Chargers contributed a demonstration, but did not ride on the Rally.

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