Les cycles et motorisés Onoto — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Over Thirty Bicycle Models from Dole

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 121: ‘Les cycles et motorisés Onoto’: founded 1906; bicycles of all types, over 30 utility, touring, semi-racing, randonneur and carrier models, children’s bicycles and toy bicycles; also V.L.T. cyclomoteurs, 70 cc Lavalette and Sachs 98 vélomoteurs; photograph of a cyclomoteur. 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 motorisés ONOTO

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The Établissements Onoto, of Dôle-du-Jura, founded in 1906, build bicycles of every type: more than 30 models, namely utility, cyclotouriste, semi-racing (demi-course), randonneur and carrier (porteur) machines, together with bicycles for boys and girls and, this year, toy bicycles (vélos jouets). A photograph of a cyclomoteur in a ruled panel follows the first paragraph. In the mechanical field the notice points to the firm’s single-speed V.L.T. cyclomoteurs and its V.L.T. unit-engine (bloc-moteur) two-speed cyclomoteurs, fitted with the Onoto sliding fork (fourche coulissante). In the larger engine sizes it notes the make’s light motorcycles with 70 cm3 Lavalette engines, three preselector speeds and a sliding fork, and with 98 cm3 Sachs engines, two speeds. The notice closes by calling all these machines remarkable for their quality of workmanship and presentation.]

[A text-and-illustration notice in a single justified column, set in roman type with the firm’s name in small capitals. The heading “Les cycles et motorisés ONOTO” stands at the upper right in a heavy bold sans-serif. A framed rectangular panel, ruled in a single black line, sits between the first paragraph and three further short paragraphs and holds a line-and-stipple engraving of a motorized bicycle seen from the front left: a small lamp on the handlebars, a tank lettered ONOTO, a leaf-sprung front fork, a finned engine low in the frame, a long exhaust, a rear luggage rack and a plain saddle. The signature “L. SAMSO” is written in small capitals in the lower right corner of the engraving. A small star ornament closes the preceding notice at the top edge of the crop.]