Le parc cycliste français pour les trois dernières années — L’Officiel du cycle, 20 September 1952, Bicycles by Département, 1949 to 1951

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 20 September 1952, the paper’s special number for the 1952 Paris Salon du Cycle et du Motocycle, page 8: a table of the bicycles in use by département in 1949, 1950 and 1951, from the sale of fiscal vignettes. The table and its notes are transcribed in full; the summary is Ebykr’s.

— Page 1 —
LE PARC CYCLISTE FRANÇAIS
POUR LES TROIS DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

(Statistique fondée sur la vente des vignettes fiscales)

1949 — 1950 — 1951

Ain — 116.293 — 111.767 — 108.381
Aisne — 144.777 — 144.682 — 146.809
Allier — 130.279 — 127.387 — 130.105
Alpes (Basses-) — 15.142 — 14.957 — 15.329
Alpes (Hautes-) — 14.954 — 15.101 — 15.087
Alpes-Maritimes — 84.131 — 82.680 — 78.098
Ardèche — 52.046 — 53.218 — 52.003
Ardennes — 87.266 — 89.332 — 90.841
Ariège — 37.071 — 35.957 — 34.707
Aube — 100.514 — 99.921 — 102.037
Aude — 63.905 — 60.691 — 56.610
Aveyron — 60.630 — 59.892 — 59.494
Belfort (Territoire de) — 37.225 — 37.100 — 37.130
Bouches-du-Rhône — 123.662 — 128.450 — 134.091
Calvados — 153.345 — 152.745 — 151.921
Cantal — 35.543 — 33.931 — 32.325
Charente — 103.206 — 99.957 — 101.079
Charente-Maritime — 160.926 — 163.281 — 165.554
Cher — 109.474 — 105.675 — 105.015
Corrèze — 65.349 — 63.477 — 62.100
Corse — (1) — (1) — (1)
Côte-d’Or — 124.620 — 118.495 — 120.212
Côtes-du-Nord — 185.398 — 176.855 — 176.124
Creuse — 51.400 — 49.885 — 48.993
Dordogne — 127.484 — 124.139 — 124.236
Doubs — 104.217 — 99.817 — 97.759
Drôme — 69.187 — 70.575 — 66.910
Eure — 121.071 — 119.631 — 118.960
Eure-et-Loir — 104.017 — 101.191 — 100.565
Finistère — 190.561 — 185.256 — 190.292
Gard — 89.769 — 89.156 — 87.127
Garonne (Haute-) — 130.527 — 126.900 — 127.628
Gers — 59.876 — 57.016 — 56.809
Gironde — 246.169 — 246.816 — 254.752
Hérault — 102.099 — 99.026 — 95.236
Ille-et-Vilaine — 234.898 — 227.001 — 230.890
Indre — 102.714 — 99.989 — 98.887
Indre-et-Loire — 136.844 — 136.396 — 136.635
Isère — 153.606 — 158.849 — 161.833
Jura — 74.800 — 71.772 — 71.455
Landes — 110.431 — 107.672 — 108.713
Loir-et-Cher — 120.660 — 100.660 — 104.124
Loire — 130.238 — 128.519 — 127.552
Loire (Haute-) — 45.782 — 44.707 — 44.589
Loire-Inférieure — 250.406 — 251.129 — 262.316
Loiret — 147.895 — 145.440 — 145.529
Lot — 40.027 — 38.651 — 38.471
Lot-et-Garonne — 100.130 — 100.000 — 100.769
Lozère — 17.718 — 17.680 — 17.686
Maine-et-Loire — 196.827 — 191.916 — 196.150
Manche — 164.021 — 163.340 — 168.648
Marne — 138.739 — 130.050 — 142.198
Marne (Haute-) — 64.645 — 64.684 — 65.682
Mayenne — 106.672 — 105.002 — 106.403
Meurthe-et-Moselle — 167.041 — 170.093 — 172.833
Meuse — 68.015 — 67.711 — 68.807
Morbihan — 155.192 — 157.981 — 162.588
Moselle — 186.040 — 186.007 — 190.781
Nièvre — 83.409 — 79.660 — 77.865
Nord — 621.744 — 624.170 — 630.559
Oise — 148.816 — 146.597 — 147.427
Orne — 104.616 — 104.066 — 107.227
Pas-de-Calais — 392.346 — 395.180 — 407.289
Puy-de-Dôme — 111.682 — 105.867 — 107.101
Pyrénées (Basses-) — 111.478 — 112.519 — 111.862
Pyrénées (Hautes-) — 41.887 — 41.295 — 42.459
Pyrénées-Orientales — 45.285 — 45.216 — 44.070
Rhin (Bas-) — 224.215 — 228.987 — 236.544
Rhin (Haut-) — 162.113 — 170.000 — 173.000
Rhône — 205.044 — 206.869 — 204.843
Saône (Haute-) — 71.261 — 68.561 — 68.998
Saône-et-Loire — 198.743 — 194.196 — 194.333
Sarthe — 167.749 — 166.864 — 180.166
Savoie — 54.233 — 54.307 — 54.013
Savoie (Haute-) — 88.949 — 82.038 — 71.078
Seine (2) — 825.836 — 825.751 — 778.412
Seine-Inférieure — 288.961 — 293.525 — 295.962
Seine-et-Marne — 151.042 — 147.563 — 146.833
Seine-et-Oise — 437.871 — 439.322 — 443.705
Sèvres (Deux-) — 121.904 — 116.829 — 117.798
Somme — 151.221 — 151.906 — 153.684
Tarn — 90.918 — 88.424 — 85.929
Tarn-et-Garonne — 44.240 — 43.272 — 46.356
Var — 69.606 — 69.775 — 69.799
Vaucluse — 69.690 — 69.302 — 67.842
Vendée — 168.207 — 168.263 — 171.221
Vienne — 113.689 — 111.168 — 112.166
Vienne (Haute-) — 84.000 — 82.612 — 82.332
Vosges — 122.561 — 123.401 — 126.191
Yonne — 94.593 — 90.086 — 90.082
Total (3) — 11.893.380 — 11.866.799 — 11.914.904

(1) Pas de vignette fiscale en Corse.

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

(3) L’année 1951 est l’année record, battant de 21.000 unités l’année 1949 (11.893.380 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.

[A full page given over to one statistical table, enclosed in a thin black rule that runs round the whole page. The title stands at the head in two lines of light sans-serif capitals, “LE PARC CYCLISTE FRANÇAIS” over “POUR LES TROIS DERNIÈRES ANNÉES”, with the line “(Statistique fondée sur la vente des vignettes fiscales)” under it in italic. The table is set in two halves side by side, parted by a thin vertical rule, the departments running alphabetically down the left half and continuing down the right. The department names are in bold roman in the left half and in plain roman in the right, each led out to its figures by a row of dots, and the three money columns are headed 1949, 1950 and 1951, each heading underscored by a short dash. The figures are set in roman with a point between the thousands and are ranged on the point. A rule closes each of the three columns at the foot of the right half, above the line “Total (3)” and the three totals. Below the table, parted from it by a horizontal rule, three numbered notes are set small in bold roman. There is no illustration, no byline and no signature on the page.]