Les fabrications Clément-Bayard — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Spokes and Nipples for Two-Wheelers and the History of the Firm

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, pages 69 and 71: ‘Les fabrications Clément-Bayard’ part 1: spokes and nipples for all two-wheelers from the Mézières plants; history of the firm from 1879 and the Bayard company at rue Brunel, Paris. 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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[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice opens by calling Clément-Bayard a prestigious name in the world of the Cycle, which continues in this branch of manufacturing that matters greatly for the bicycle and for motorcycles. The firm produces, in its works at Mézières (La Macérienne), spokes and nuts for all “two-wheelers” and supplies numerous constructors. The writer then says it seems worth recalling in a few lines the history of the house founded by the famous pioneer of the cycle and the automobile that Clément-Bayard was. In 1879 he founded the first Société Bayard, whose first factory rose in 1886 in the rue Brunel in Paris, in the very center of what was to become the Cycle quarter par excellence, where a riding school for velocipedes, for beginner amateurs, could be seen. In 1896 the Levallois factory was built for airplanes and airships (premises now belonging to Citroën). In 1898 the first Clément automobile was built under license, and the text continues in the next image.]

[A firm notice in the magazine’s own column, text only, set in italic serif type with the firm name in small capitals and some words in roman. The crop opens with the first line of the notice and carries no heading line, drawing, photograph, signature or agency mark; it ends in the middle of a sentence, at the words “sous licence”, so the notice is incomplete here. No text from the reverse of the leaf shows through.]

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[Ebykr summary, continuing the Clément-Bayard history; the article’s text is not reproduced. The sentence from the previous column ends with the word Panhard, so the 1898 car was built under license from Panhard. Automobile construction, interrupted by the war, resumed in 1919 and went on until 1921, the date at which Clément-Bayard leased its works to the Société Citroën. For the small history, the magazine adds that Clément-Bayard crossed the Channel by airship in 1910 and made the distance record by airplane from Biarritz to Kollum in 1913. The company, now directed by M. Dumont, grandson of Clément-Bayard, also builds the Mabec motor tillers (motoculteurs).]

[Text only, the close of a firm notice in a single block of italic serif type, with the firm name Clément-Bayard and the names Dumont, Société Citroën and Mabec partly in roman or small capitals, and old-style figures for the dates 1919, 1921, 1910 and 1913. The block opens with a first line that finishes the sentence of the previous image and ends with the last word of the notice. No illustration, address or signature appears.]