La béquille renforcée RIC — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, the Reinforced Spring-Held Kickstand

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 19 September 1953, N° 39, the paper’s Salon number du Cycle at the Porte de Versailles, page 87: la béquille renforcée R.I.C.: a spring-held kickstand in a drawing, for cyclomotors and bicycles. 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 béquille renforcée RIC

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice says the RIC kickstand, while staying light, has the maximum of rigidity. It offers an important “house feature” (“particularité maison”), a result obtained through an inverted V guide, retaining the uprights, which takes the lateral loads. Two strong springs hold it, without possible vibration, in the closed position. Its elegance and its “feather” weight (“plume”) make it an ideal fitment for cyclomotors as well as bicycles. It is made by the Établissements J. Richaud of Saint-Genis-Laval (Rhône).]

[A firm notice from a trade magazine column with one framed drawing. The heading “La béquille renforcée RIC” stands at the upper right in a bold roman typeface, with the firm mark in capitals, above two paragraphs of justified light italic text. Below them a thin ruled rectangle, taller than wide and centered in the column, holds a line drawing with solid black shading of the kickstand seen from the front: at the top a square-cornered bracket with a bolt hanging inside it and a small clip across its upper edge, a crossbar below it carrying two coiled springs side by side, and from there two flat legs that splay outward and downward to pointed feet, joined near their upper ends by a short plate and a curved strap. Three short paragraphs of italic text follow the frame, the last naming the maker, with the name Richaud in small capitals. There is no signature or agency mark, and no text from the reverse of the leaf shows through.]