Les manivelles trois branches A. Duprat — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Three-Arm Cranks and the New Universel Type

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 72: ‘Les manivelles trois branches A. Duprat’: three-arm cranks, new Universel type with attached arms, usable with two chainwheels. 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.

— Page 1 —
Les manivelles trois branches A. DUPRAT

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The old Saint-Étienne house A. Duprat has long established itself through the quality of its manufacture, and its famous « Professionnels » cranks have earned a fully justified reputation; precision, lightness and elegance are their main characteristics. The author turns to M. A. Duprat’s latest creation, the three-arm crank of the Universel type, a new model expected to be a great success.]

[Ebykr summary, continued. The Universel is a crank with attached (rapportées) three arms, of remarkable appearance and everyday use. Its chief advantage, and an important one, lies in a cost price lower than that of the classic-form three-arm crank, so the constructor who fits it saves noticeably while keeping the same advantages and the same performance. It also allows two chainwheels to be mounted, thanks to a special set of screws and bolts. The author concludes that M. A. Duprat, as a proven technician, has foreseen everything.]

[A text-only passage in one column. The heading is set flush right in heavy bold roman type. The text beneath is justified italic roman type with paragraph indents; the name Duprat appears in upright small capitals among the italic lines. There is no illustration or signature. A small open black circle, the closing ornament of the article, is centered below the last line.]