Les nouveautés C.L.B. — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 November 1952, Brakes, Grips, Racks and Twist Grips

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, page 38: note ‘Les nouveautés C.L.B.’: brakes, handgrips, luggage racks, handlebars, chainguards, pedal bits; new cyclomoteur kickstand and 24 mm spark-plug wrench; twist grips (photo). 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 nouveautés C.L.B.

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The marque C.L.B., from the Saint-Étienne area (stéphanoise), is called synonymous with equipment as varied as it is ingenious for the bicycle and the cyclomoteur. The author says he will merely mention the firm’s well-known brakes, its handgrips, luggage racks, handlebars, chainguards (carters) and pedal bits (décaleurs de pédales). Among its novelties he insists on the kickstand (béquille) for cyclomoteurs, whose particularity is a wide spread at rest (25 cm), hence great stability of the machine, but a very small spread in the raised position (8 cm); and on the spark-plug wrench (clé démonte-bougie) of 24 mm.]

[Ebykr summary, after the engraving. The author adds the twist grips (poignées tournantes), made in a very complete series, single-control and double-control types. The engraving shows one of the latter; its features are a straight pull, easy fixing of the cable by a screw and a thin rubber sleeve. He calls it a fine article destined for wide distribution.]

[A text notice with one line engraving set in a thin ruled frame. The heading “Les nouveautés C.L.B.” stands at the upper right in a bold sans-serif face. The body is set in a slanted italic roman face. A row of three stars from the previous notice shows at the very top of the crop. The engraving, drawn in fine line hatching, shows a twist grip with a ribbed cylindrical sleeve and a clamp collar at the left end with a set screw, and a curved brake-type lever with a loop at the upper right and a long tapering blade that sweeps down and to the left; the letters “C.L.B.” are engraved along the lever near its pivot screw. No artist signature appears.]