Yes, another Annual General Meeting, a veritable talking shop and no mistake.  Nothing daunted our hero enters the fray and starts by taking issue with the Bolton Watch Committee who have recently resolved to lobby for every vehicle in the hours of darkness to carry a red rear light.  (A subject much debated in Parliament at the time).  It doesn’t say so in this piece but Charlie had very strong views on the threatened compulsion to carry any sort of light at the rear.  Let the overtaker beware was his philosophy.  Not much help for the poor cyclist who may be literally carried away, but in those days fatal road accidents were very much more commonplace than nowadays.