Les fabrications Colombat — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Ad-Hoc Pumps and Bells in Light Alloy and the Bamby Child’s Pump

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 71: ‘Les fabrications Colombat’: Ad-Hoc pumps and bells for cyclists in light alloy, an aluminum pump, Bamby children’s frame pump, chromed brass pump for next season. 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 fabrications COLOMBAT

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice says that the Ad-Hoc pumps and bells are always of very careful manufacture, and that by their quality, strength and appearance they find favor with fastidious cyclists concerned about the look of their bicycles. The results obtained in all these articles in high-strength light alloy have astonished even the specialists in these metals, and the hardnesses obtained by the special working of the tubes are said to be those of all other metals. The firm also makes, with the same care and the same concern to satisfy customers, an aluminum pump and a pump for a child’s bicycle under the Bamby marque, designed to the scale of the frame so that the child can inflate his own bicycle. The Établissements Ed. et F. Colombat will present for the coming season a pump in chromed brass.]

[A firm notice in the magazine’s own column, text only. A bold sans-serif heading aligned at the right, with the firm name in wider capitals, stands over four paragraphs set in italic serif type with a first-line indent, the names Ad-Hoc and Bamby and the firm name in roman or small capitals. No drawing, photograph, signature or agency mark appears, and no text from the reverse of the leaf shows through.]