Au Salon des sports… et ailleurs — L’Officiel du cycle, 3 May 1952, Gédovius Drawings of Cycle Trailers, a Lucas Dynamo Set, a Scooter and an Auxiliary Engine

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 3 May 1952, N° 18, the spring number, page 35: ‘Au Salon des sports… et ailleurs’: Gédovius drawings with notes, two Deseuvre trailers for bicycles (6 TS and 8 ST, 6 kg and 12 kg), a Lucas 6 V 3 W dynamo lighting set for cycles with a torpedo tail lamp, the Ardent scooter, the Eilenriede 48 cc auxiliary engine over a bicycle front wheel. 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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AU SALON DES SPORTS… ET AILLEURS

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[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. At the Salon des Sports et du Camping the writer noticed the 6 T S trailer for cycles by G. DESEUVRE. It is a single-wheel trailer without suspension, built as a cradle of drawn steel tubes doubled with small stiffening tubes. Its 350 x 45 wheel is held in reversed dropouts, and stirrups are provided for straps or elastic cords. Empty weight is 6 kg and the load is 35 kg of baggage. It is attached to the axle of the bicycle’s rear wheel.]

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[Ebykr summary, second item. Also at DESEUVRE is another type of trailer, the 8 S T, of different design, weighing 12 kg and carrying 60 kg of baggage. Its suspension is an oscillating fork of double triangulated tubes, and the arrangement of the NEIMAN rubber ring that gives the elasticity shows great suppleness. This trailer belongs, with the preceding one, to a range of six models offered by the maker, who also carries out all special work to plans.]

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[Ebykr summary, third item. The English marque LUCAS is bringing out, for Belgium and Switzerland, a new lighting set with a dynamo of 6 volts 3 and 3 watts. The attachment to the frame is fitted with a red lamp in the shape of a torpedo, whose plastic ends give very good visibility.]

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[Ebykr summary, fourth item. The new ARDENT scooter is of a totally different design from the earlier models. Its frame is of welded tubes, and a removable cowling covers all the mechanical parts and widens at the front into an apron that protects the rider’s legs. The front suspension is telescopic and the rear fork is oscillating with a coil spring adjustable to the rider’s weight. The wheels are large, with 45 x 55 tires. The engine is of the LE POULAIN make, a 2-stroke of 49 cm3 with 2 speeds and built-in pedal gear. The scooter weighs 30 kg and reaches about 50 km/h.]

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[Ebykr summary, fifth item. The 48 cm3 EILENRIEDE auxiliary engine, made in Germany, is distinguished by its 4-stroke cycle. It is an inverted single cylinder whose crankcase and cylinder hang below the flywheel magneto and the exhaust, the whole unit straddling the front wheel of the bicycle. Two speeds, in the ratios 1.21 and 1.36, allow riding in mountains. Power is 1 CV 4 at 4,800 revolutions per minute and consumption is 1 liter per 100 km. The tank, holding about 2 liters, sits on top of the engine unit, and its front part is shaped as a cap in which the headlamp is set.]

GEDOVIUS

[Five line drawings with notes, laid out in two columns under a large roman title in black capitals, “AU SALON DES SPORTS… ET AILLEURS”, across the head of the page. The left column carries items 1 to 3 and the right column items 4 and 5, each item a numbered paragraph of sans-serif text with a drawing set into it. Item 1 shows a one-wheeled luggage trailer in pen outline, with a long tubular cradle, two forked drawbar arms at the upper end and a mudguarded wheel at the lower left. Item 2 shows the front end of a second trailer in pen outline, with a mudguarded wheel, a sprung fork with a coiled shock absorber and a tubular body with a ribbed floor. Item 3 shows a bottle-shaped dynamo with the lettering “LUCAS” and “OD 33” on its body, a clamp bracket with three screws, and a torpedo-shaped rear lamp. Item 4 shows the front of a scooter in hatched pen work, with handlebars, a steering head, a wide apron cowling and a knee guard. Item 5 shows a small engine unit in hatched pen work with finned cylinder, a drum-shaped tank cap above, a headlamp shell at the upper right, an exhaust and a long lower tube; the word “Eilenriede” appears in script on its tank. Each drawing carries the signature “G.GEDO” in its lower right or lower left corner, and the text is closed at the lower right by the printed signature “GEDOVIUS” in roman capitals. No firm’s address appears.]