Macabre récompense, le « Tour » à Strasbourg, les Vétérans, le « vélophone » — L’Officiel du cycle, 2 May 1953, Four Short Echoes of Cycling

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 2 May 1953, N° 18, the spring number, page 79: . Four short Échos items follow, each under its own heading: a cyclist’s reward from Los Angeles, the Tour de France and the congresses at Strasbourg, the veterans’ road championship and a German radio set for bicycles. The headings are transcribed as printed and the text is summarized in Ebykr’s words, and the page images carry it in full.

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Macabre récompense

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. Victor Franco, the Frenchman who made the journey from Québec to San Francisco by bicycle (the magazine promises to come back to the book he drew from his trip), is said to have received a letter from Los Angeles. In it a publicity committee announces, with pleasure, that a perpetual first-choice burial plot in a very romantic spot, shaded by historic fir trees, is reserved for him “dans notre cimetière”. The item ends by remarking that one is lost in conjecture about the real meaning of this gracious offer.]

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Le “ Tour ” et les Congrès à Strasbourg

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. Strasbourg is, as is well known, the capital of congresses, and a hundred and some were held there in 1952. From 20 June to 5 July next, however, because of the preparation of the start of the Tour, Strasbourg will be closed to every congress. The city has refused several, with the sole aim of letting the organizers of the Tour de France work in complete quiet and house the whole caravan in the best conditions.]

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Les Vétérans sur route

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The Fédération Française de Cyclisme has set up a road championship of France for veterans. The event is to be held on 28 June next, and the age limit is fixed at 60 years.]

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Voici le “ vélophone ”

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. A German has developed a radio set that can be fitted to bicycles. The lamp of the bicycle holds the “loudspeaker” and the saddlebag holds two batteries, while the set itself is fixed on the frame and the aerial on the handlebar. The inventor is said to be looking for a way to have the batteries recharged by the dynamo. The writer finds the general idea rather amusing but allows that small sets of this kind may one day multiply on the bicycles of touring riders.]

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