Les freins Sova — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Center-Pull Caliper Brakes at the Hall du Cycle

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 111: ‘Les freins Sova’: center-pull caliper brakes in stamped steel, molded bronze or forged duralumin with butterfly nuts and 4 and 8 hole keys; shown at the Hall du Cycle stand 330; photograph of a caliper brake. 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 freins SOVA

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice says the Établissements Sova of Thonon-les-Bains will exhibit at the Hall du Cycle (stand 330) their excellent brakes, all models, in stamped (matricé) steel, molded bronze and forged duralumin, with a central spring and brake blocks (à tasseaux), together with their bronze and duralumin wing nuts (écrous-papillons), their 4-hole and 8-hole keys and their spark-plug keys. The notice closes by calling this a range of products fit to satisfy a large clientele of users who are customers of the cycle dealers (Vélocistes).]

[Text with one halftone photograph. The heading “Les freins SOVA” stands at the top right in bold roman type with SOVA in capitals. The notice is set in italic type with the firm name Sova in small capitals, and its first sentence is interrupted by a square panel with a thin black rule border placed across the column. The panel holds a coarse-screen halftone photograph of a center-pull caliper brake seen from the front: a dark arched metal arm on each side meets at a central pivot block with a small hooked cable-clamp at the top, and each arm ends in a long cylindrical brake block at the bottom, the right-hand arm carrying an upright bolt at its upper end. The photograph carries no caption, signature or artist mark. The text resumes below the panel and ends with the second paragraph.]