Bicyclettes en circulation, par départements, 1948-1950 — L’Officiel du cycle, 6 October 1951

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 6 October 1951, the paper’s special number for the 1951 Paris Salon du Cycle et du Motocycle and its 60th anniversary, page 58: a table of bicycles in circulation by département in 1948, 1949 and 1950. The table and its notes are transcribed in full; the summary is Ebykr’s.

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BICYCLETTES EN CIRCULATION

Statistique comparée des trois dernières années

(établie d’après la vente des vignetttes fiscales)

1948 — 1949 — 1950
Ain ………. 106.212 — 116.293 — 111.767
Aisne ………. 129.278 — 144.777 — 144.682
Allier ………. 119.329 — 130.279 — 127.387
Alpes (Basses-) ………. (1) — 15.142 — 14.957
Alpes (Hautes-) ………. (1) — 14.954 — 15.101
Alpes-Maritimes ………. 82.478 — 84.131 — 82.680
Ardèche ………. (1) — 52.046 — 53.218
Ardennes ………. 73.482 — 87.266 — 89.332
Ariège ………. 33.625 — 37.071 — 35.957
Aube ………. 90.730 — 100.514 — 99.921
Aude ………. 61.515 — 63.905 — 60.691
Aveyron ………. 73.759 — 60.630 — 59.892
Belfort (Territoire de) (1) — 37.225 — 37.100
Bouches-du-Rhône ………. 114.764 — 123.662 — 128.450
Calvados ………. 136.796 — 153.345 — 152.745
Cantal ………. 34.479 — 35.543 — 33.931
Charente ………. 86.774 — 103.206 — 99.957
Charente-Maritime ………. 140.581 — 160.926 — 163.281
Cher ………. 99.047 — 109.474 — 105.675
Corrèze ………. 57.905 — 65.349 — 63.477
Corse ………. (2) — (2) — (2)
Côte-d’Or ………. 112.031 — 124.620 — 118.495
Côtes-du-Nord ………. 161.338 — 185.398 — 176.855
Creuse ………. 48.778 — 51.400 — 49.885
Dordogne ………. 111.642 — 127.484 — 124.139
Doubs ………. 97.219 — 104.217 — 99.817
Drôme ………. 111.834 — 69.187 — 70.575
Eure ………. 104.684 — 121.071 — 119.631
Eure-et-Loir ………. 93.623 — 104.017 — 101.191
Finistère ………. 157.641 — 190.561 — 185.256
Gard ………. 85.260 — 89.769 — 89.156
Garonne (Haute-) ………. 120.405 — 130.527 — 126.900
Gers ………. 54.244 — 59.876 — 57.016
Gironde ………. 212.893 — 246.169 — 246.816
Hérault ………. 98.615 — 102.099 — 99.026
Ille-et-Vilaine ………. 206.689 — 234.898 — 227.001
Indre ………. 95.076 — 102.714 — 99.989
Indre-et-Loire ………. 18.133 — 136.844 — 136.396
Isère ………. 155.345 — 153.606 — 158.849
Jura ………. 72.429 — 74.800 — 71.772
Landes ………. 96.321 — 110.431 — 107.672
Loir-et-Cher ………. 88.398 — 120.660 — 100.660
Loire ………. 122.873 — 130.238 — 128.519
Loire (Haute-) ………. 44.795 — 45.782 — 44.707
Loire-Inférieure ………. 224.467 — 250.406 — 251.129
Loiret ………. 128.183 — 147.895 — 145.440

1948 — 1949 — 1950
Lot ………. 36.772 — 40.027 — 38.651
Lot-et-Garonne ………. 90.173 — 100.130 — 100.000
Lozère ………. (1) — 17.718 — 17.680
Maine-et-Loire ………. 168.693 — 196.827 — 191.916
Manche ………. 145.224 — 164.021 — 163.340
Marne ………. 126.278 — 138.739 — 130.050
Marne (Haute-) ………. 58.511 — 64.645 — 64.684
Mayenne ………. 92.952 — 106.672 — 105.002
Meurthe-et-Moselle ………. 151.632 — 167.041 — 170.093
Meuse ………. 61.080 — 68.015 — 67.711
Morbihan ………. 126.455 — 155.192 — 157.981
Moselle ………. 162.904 — 186.040 — 186.007
Nièvre ………. 73.031 — 83.409 — 79.660
Nord ………. 546.205 — 621.744 — 624.170
Oise ………. 131.680 — 148.816 — 146.597
Orne ………. 91.762 — 104.616 — 104.066
Pas-de-Calais ………. 340.752 — 392.346 — 395.180
Puy-de-Dôme ………. 108.425 — 111.682 — 105.867
Pyrénées (Basses-) ………. 100.030 — 111.478 — 112.519
Pyrénées (Hautes-) ………. 37.006 — 41.887 — 41.295
Pyrénées-Orientales ………. 43.585 — 45.285 — 45.216
Rhin (Bas-) ………. 199.574 — 224.215 — 228.987
Rhin (Haute-) ………. 143.337 — 162.113 — 170.000
Rhône ………. 189.671 — 205.044 — 206.869
Saône (Haute-) ………. 98.586 — 71.261 — 68.571
Saône-et-Loire ………. 180.940 — 198.743 — 194.196
Sarthe ………. 150.233 — 167.749 — 166.864
Savoie ………. 49.812 — 54.233 — 54.307
Savoie (Haute-) ………. 77.453 — 88.949 — 82.038
Seine ………. 757.206 — 825.836 — 825.751
Seine-Inférieure ………. 257.640 — 288.961 — 293.525
Seine-et-Marne ………. 135.033 — 151.042 — 147.563
Seine-et-Oise ………. 375.727 — 437.871 — 439.322
Sèvres (Deux-) ………. 109.311 — 121.904 — 116.829
Somme ………. 132.091 — 151.221 — 151.906
Tarn ………. 81.412 — 90.918 — 88.424
Tarn-et-Garonne ………. 37.770 — 44.240 — 43.272
Var ………. 63.984 — 69.606 — 69.775
Vaucluse ………. 81.523 — 69.690 — 69.302
Vendée ………. 148.450 — 168.207 — 168.263
Vienne ………. 98.626 — 113.689 — 111.168
Vienne (Haute-) ………. 73.864 — 84.000 — 82.612
Vosges ………. 113.095 — 122.561 — 123.401
Yonne ………. 80.981 — 94.593 — 90.086

Total (3) ………. 10.703.139 — 11.982.380 — 11.866.799

(1) Pour tous les départements où les chiffres manquent (sauf la Corse. — Voir plus loin), cela signifie qu’ils ont été bloqués par l’Administration des Contributions Indirectes avec ceux d’un département voisin au cours de l’année considérée.

(2) Pas de vignette fiscale en Corse.

(3) Les six plus forts départements demeurent depuis trois ans : 1o Seine ; 2o Nord ; 3o Seine-et-Oise ; 4o Pas-de-Calais ; 5o Seine-Inférieure ; 6o Loire-Inférieure.

L’année 1949 est l’année record, battant de 1.270.000 unités l’année 1942 (10.711. 803 bicyclettes). Bien remarquer, d’ailleurs, que les bicyclettes à moteur auxiliaire étant dispensées de la vignette, ces machines, en nombre sans cesse croissant, ne figurent pas normalement dans la statistique.

[No drawings or photographs. The table is set in two halves of three year columns (1948, 1949, 1950), each département followed by a dotted leader, the halves divided by a vertical rule, with the notes below a horizontal rule; the whole page is enclosed in a double-rule frame. The reverse page shows through the paper of this copy.]