Les cycles et cyclomoteurs La Perle — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Francis Pélissier’s Marque and the New Vap DT 48 cc Cyclomoteur

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 122: ‘Les cycles et cyclomoteurs La Perle’: complete series in baby, children’s, utility, touring and racing types; new 1954 Vap DT 48 cc cyclomoteur, photographed. 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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Les cycles et cyclomoteurs LA PERLE

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice calls La Perle a very popular marque whose sporting director is Francis Pélissier and which remains one of the most brilliant upholders of the bicycle. On that footing it will present a splendid complete series of machines in Baby, children’s, utility, cyclotouriste and racing types. A photograph of a cyclomoteur follows. In addition the marque will show its new cyclomoteur, with a Vap DT engine of the 1954 type, 48 cm3, which the notice describes as powerful, sturdy (all special tubes reinforced), practical (engine and carburetor immediately accessible, the crankcase covers being fixed without bolts and therefore removable instantly) and elegant (very carefully studied proportions).]

[A text-and-photograph notice in a single justified column, set in roman type with the name Pélissier in small capitals. The heading “Les cycles et cyclomoteurs LA PERLE” stands at the upper right in a heavy bold sans-serif and touches the top edge of the crop. A wide halftone photograph in a thin dotted frame, set between two blocks of text, shows a motorized bicycle from the front right against a pale ground: a step-through frame with a long tank-shaped panel lettered LA PERLE on the diagonal tube, a leather saddle, a rear luggage rack, a large spoked front wheel with a wide mudguard and a low chain or engine cover lettered LA PERLE between the wheels. A small pennant lettered LA PERLE is fixed to the front fork. No signature appears. The last letter of the word “donc” is clipped at the right edge of the crop.]