Les spécialités L. Barral — L’Officiel du cycle, 19 September 1953, Brake Levers, the Bartali Model and the Vittoria Hand Rest

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 91: les spécialités L. Barral: brake levers, a sport model used by Bartali in Tour de France stages, an inverted lever for city bikes and cyclomotors (drawing), and the Vittoria rubber hand rest. 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 spécialités L. BARRAL

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. In brake handles, at its factories in Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes), the Maison L. Barral produces well-regarded specialties. For sport it makes a model with a convenient, effective relief for the hand, used by champions such as Bartali and proven notably in the mountain stages of the Tour de France.]

[Ebykr summary, after the engraving. For city use the firm has developed inverted handles, whose general adoption on cyclomotors and vélomoteurs shows their practical qualities and sturdiness; the model shown in the engraving is the “vélomoteur” model. The author adds that, among Barral’s products, the Vittoria rubber hand rest should not be forgotten, already described in the magazine’s equipment column.]

[A column notice with a bold roman heading set flush right above italic paragraphs, a framed line drawing between the paragraphs. The drawing, in a thin black rectangular frame, shows a single brake lever clamped to the end of a handlebar tube: a curved lever with a long, tapering blade sweeping down and to the left, a pivot screw at its head, and the clamp and cable fitting drawn in fine hatching with shaded metal surfaces. The firm name is set in small capitals in the text. No signature or agency mark is visible.]