La machine Emain à visser et centrer les roues — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 November 1952, the Wheel Lacing and Truing Machine

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 ‘La machine Emain à visser et centrer les roues’: wheel lacing and truing machine in cycle, cyclomoteur and light-motorcycle types (up to 150 cc); couple-limiter spoke tensioning; photo of a woman operating it. 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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La machine EMAIN à visser et centrer les roues

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice says the Emain machine, made in cycle, cyclomotor and light-motorcycle types, gives effective, profitable work from the first months on wheels of every profile, from the scooter (patinette) up to the 150 cc motorcycle. Instead of using the length of the spoke to drive in the nipple, the Emain machine rests on the principle of the torque limiter; it gives a regular, constant tension to each spoke and finishes a wheel with strongly tensioned spokes, trued. Each machine is delivered with its tooling, instruction leaflet and drawings for adjustment and maintenance, and can be installed on request by the firm, which is based at Saint-Claude, Jura. The text then begins a sentence saying the machine is in actual service in the large factories (the sentence continues in the next column).]

[A text-only passage in the magazine’s own column. The heading stands at the head in upright roman type with wide letter spacing, with the firm’s name EMAIN in heavier capitals, and its line runs out to the right margin. Beneath it the running text is set in italic roman type, nine lines in all, with the firm’s name Emain in upright roman among the italics, and the last line breaks off mid-sentence at the foot of the crop. No drawing, photograph, signature or agency mark appears in this part.]

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[Ebykr summary, continuing the sentence from the previous column; the article’s text is not reproduced. The machine is in service in the large factories of the whole world; its modest price is quickly paid off, even at medium-sized makers. Simple and robust, it needs no adjustment, and the notice says the use of a laborer rather than a scarce specialist thereby becomes possible. A photograph below the first lines shows the machine in use.]

[A text-only opening of two italic lines and a third line that is cut off at the right, followed by a halftone photograph, centered in the column and taller than it is wide, without a ruled frame, showing a woman in a pale smock and light shoes standing sideways at a tall wooden frame on splayed legs. She holds a tool against a wheel mounted on a horizontal axle in the frame, and a pair of rods with round knobs stands upright at the left of the frame. A closing line of italic type follows below the photograph, with a three-star break mark at the foot of the crop. A small bracketed blot sits at the right of the second text line. No caption, signature or agency mark appears.]