The club was founded in 1902 and maintained a club room and a garage for its members (at 22A Jesus Lane for at least the period 1904-8). It organised runs; competitive hill climbs, for which there were two trophies (the Rothschild Challenge Cup and the Garnett-Botfield Challenge Cup for Motor Cycles); and was involved in inter-varsity races. The club was active until 1910 and was formally wound up in 1926. However, a short lived club of 1914 and a more successful venture of 1919 were considered to be re-foundings. The 1919 organisation was initially known as the Cambridge University Motorcycle Club. By 1926 the increasing predominance of car owners prompted a return to the name Cambridge University Automobile Club. It also acquired the trophies of the 1902 club at this point. The banking brothers Anthony Gustav and Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, the mechanical engineer Harry Ralph Ricardo, and the educationist (later Master of Corpus Christi College) William Spens were all early members. The engineer and Proctor Frederick James Dykes was president in 1908 and secretary in the late 1920s. The website of a Cambridge University Automobile Club (active at 2008) and focussing on rallying and karting activities is to be found at http://www.cuac.soc.ucam.org/.