Les moyeux Sturmey-Archer — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Three-Speed and Four-Speed Hubs from the Société G.I.P.

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 89: les moyeux Sturmey-Archer: 3-speed hubs, models AW, AM, AC, ABG, FW, FM, FC, BFC and BCR, with a photograph of a hub with a chainwheel. 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 moyeux STURMEY-ARCHER

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The Société G.I.P. is the importer for France of these hubs, described as being of international class. The first type, a 3-speed hub, was put on the market nearly fifty years earlier and brought a technical revolution to the bicycle.]

[Ebykr summary, after the illustration. With this hub the cyclist could lengthen his rides while reducing fatigue, and hills and headwinds lost their reputation as bugbears. Since then the range of hubs made by the British company Sturmey-Archer has kept growing, so that a hub type of the make now exists for every category of user. The main current types are the AW standard, successor to the original model; the AM and AC for sporting cyclists; and the ABG with drum brake, all of them 3-speed. Then come the FW, meeting the demands of the most advanced cycling; the FM, similar to the previous one but intended for sporting cyclists wanting closer gear steps; and the FC, designed for road racing, these last three being 4-speed. The author adds the BFC, a front hub with a cable-operated drum brake, and the BCR, a rear hub with a brake of the same system.]

[A column notice with a bold roman heading set flush right above two short italic paragraphs, a framed halftone illustration of a hub, and two further italic paragraphs. The illustration, in a thin black rectangular frame, shows a single rear hub seen from the side: a polished barrel with spoke flanges at both ends, a lettered band across the barrel bearing the Sturmey-Archer name and the model mark AW-7, a toothed sprocket at the right with a short chain and a threaded control rod running up from the axle end, and a nut on the axle at the left. The firm name appears in small capitals within the text. No signature or agency mark is visible.]