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Ebykr celebrates classic and vintage lightweight bicycles through provocative imagery and opinion. Ride along with us.

Bicycle Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Automoto: five articles, a Timeline of 27 dated events from 1889 to 1962 and 30 documents in the archive.
The history of Automoto on Ebykr.

Cycles Automoto of Saint-Étienne: the cloverleaf marque of 1898, its four Tour de France wins of 1923 to 1926 and its merger into the Peugeot group.
Grouped by format, the most read first.

A timeline of Cycles Automoto from Saint-Étienne in 1889 through four straight Tour wins of 1923 to 1926 to Peugeot's control and the marque's end in 1962.


The build sheet of an unrestored 1930s Automoto 650B road and path bicycle: Gloria rod brakes, ballon fenders, a rear rack and a 1937 registration plate.

The build sheet of a chromed 1948 Automoto Concours Sportif show bicycle: hand-cut lugs, clover fork inserts, a Huret three-speed and an Idéale saddle.

All 16 Cycles Automoto posters from 1899 to 1950, by Mich, Roger Broders, Cappiello, Lajos Marton and others, each transcribed in the Poster Archive.
Where Automoto is named outside its own pages: four articles, one build sheet and four archive documents from two other makers and two publications.
The articles that name Automoto most often first.
…members of the La Sportive consortium in 1919. Other core members included: Alcyon, Automoto, Clément, Hurtu-Gladys, Liberator, and La Française. This collective of rival manufacturers pooled their resources…
…of Peugeot, which took control in May 1958 and moved motorcycle production to the Automoto factory at Saint-Étienne in January 1959. Indenor specialized in the manufacture of diesel engines and not bicycles…
…the diesel-engine subsidiary of Peugeot, which moves motorcycle production to the Automoto factory at Saint-Étienne in January 1959. 1961 · Production Milestone · In-house Terrot production halts, with a…
…manufacturing industry and the country's Industrial Revolution. Bicycle makers like Automoto, component makers like Stronglight and materials suppliers like Ateliers de la Rive (Vitus) operated out of the…
Bicycles in the Tech Specs database that name Automoto.
Filed under other makers and publications whose words name Automoto; the biggest share first.
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