Les pompes et équipements J. Dunois — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 November 1952, Chainguards, the Mistral Pump and the Peugeot Inox Bicycle

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 41: note ‘Les pompes et équipements J. Dunois’: alu-dur chainguards (1951), new polished-alloy chaincase 27 E for a child’s bicycle, cyclomoteur engine covers; the Mistral pump with a new spring bayonet cap; Mistral pump fitted on the stainless Peugeot ‘Inox’ bicycle shown under rain at the Salon; one drawing. 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 pompes et équipements J. DUNOIS

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice says the Dunois stand drew its usual large crowd of cycle dealers wanting to learn about the well-known firm’s new presentations. It recalls the alu-dur chainguards created in 1951 and announces an expected novelty, the polished-aluminum chaincase no. 27 E for a child’s bicycle. For cyclomotors the firm has begun making engine covers (capots) for auxiliary motors, and the writer finds it easy to foresee very wide use of this equipment.]

Ressort
Emplacement du ressort
Ressort

[Ebykr summary, after the figure. The leading product at Dunois remains the Mistral pump, which this year has a new feature: the screwed cap has been replaced by a cap closed by a spring system that hooks on like a bayonet. The notice says the figure shows this device, whose advantage is that it is very quick and replaces the screw system, always very delicate. It adds that one curiosity of the Salon was this pump fitted to the Peugeot “Inox” bicycle, shown under rain in a glass case at the Peugeot stand; the Mistral pump is guaranteed against oxidation, and the one in question was strictly a standard production item.]

[An editorial note set in the magazine’s own column: a heading in letterspaced roman type, right-aligned, over paragraphs in italic with the firm’s name in small capitals. A ruled rectangular panel runs across the column holding one line-engraved drawing of a long cylindrical pump barrel with a pointed tip at the left and a smaller rounded end cap at the right. A circular magnifying-glass inset at the right shows the cap fitting in enlarged section, with a spring and the bayonet slots; three small labels in sans-serif type read “Ressort”, “Emplacement du ressort” and “Ressort”, the last two with leader lines. No artist signature is visible in the drawing. A three-star break mark appears at the foot of the column.]