Les cycles et motocycles Peugeot — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 November 1952, the Bicycle, the Bima and the Stainless Bicycle in the Water Cage

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 1 November 1952, N° 44, the paper’s number reporting on the Salon du Cycle at the Porte de Versailles, pages 31 and 33: stand note ‘Les cycles et motocycles Peugeot’: Peugeot remains one of the great national bicycle marques; photo of a Peugeot bicycle on a display stand; then the Bima cyclomoteur and the 125 cc 2-stroke velomoteur, photo of the Bima. The title, headings, captions and lists are transcribed as printed; the text is summarized in Ebykr’s words, and the page images carry it in full.

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Les cycles et motocycles PEUGEOT

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. In bicycles Peugeot remains one of the great national marques, and all the Vélocistes know the firm’s models well.]

[Ebykr summary, after the first photograph. In cyclomoteurs the firm’s Bima machine has become one of the most classic, and the author refers the reader to the photograph below it.]

[Ebykr summary, after the second photograph. In vélomoteurs Peugeot turns out machines of 125 cm3, 2-stroke, with 3 speeds, a telescopic fork and a foot-operated selector and, according to the type, hydraulic shock absorbers and rear suspension (AR).]

[A text column with two halftone photographs set in the body, each in a plain rectangle without a caption. The heading “Les cycles et motocycles PEUGEOT” stands at the top in a sans-serif face with the marque name in capitals; in the body text the marque name appears in small capitals. The first photograph shows a man’s bicycle with a light frame, full mudguards and a chain case, standing upright inside a glass-sided display case with a flat canopy on top; a lettered placard sits on the canopy, but its words cannot be read. The second photograph, lower down, shows a three-quarter view of a motorized bicycle with a pedal frame, a long oval tank set between the frame tubes, a telescopic fork, a saddle, a rear carrier and full mudguards, set against a plain graduated backdrop. The notice continues in the next column. No signature or artist mark appears on either photograph.]

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[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. This section continues the notice on Peugeot. In motorcycles the firm builds 175 cm3 two-stroke machines of ultra-modern structure, as the photograph below shows. The machine has a foot-operated selector, a telescopic fork with hydraulic shock absorbers and rear suspension (AR). Two words of the sentence “par la photo ci-dessous” and part of “structure ultra-moderne” are lost to blemishes in the print.]

[Ebykr summary, after the photograph. One of the great curiosities of the Salon was the stainless Peugeot bicycle (la bicyclette inoxydable Peugeot), shown fully equipped in a glass cage streaming with water, without suffering any alteration.]

[A text column with one halftone photograph set in the body, in a plain rectangle without a caption. The photograph shows a close three-quarter view of a motorcycle with a rounded tank, a flat saddle, a large engine and gearbox casing at the center, a telescopic fork with a headlamp at the upper right, a broad front mudguard and a wheel at the lower right, against a plain graduated backdrop. Body text is set in a roman serif with the marque name in italic in the last paragraph, and no heading appears on this image because it is the second part of the notice. No signature or artist mark appears on the photograph.]