Panorama du Cycle et du Motocycle Français, Fin — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 May 1954, the Closing Page of the Four-Language Survey with a Cyclist on a Country Road

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 1 May 1954, the paper’s special export number, printed in French, English, Spanish and German, page 57: end (‘Fin’) of ‘Panorama du cycle et du motocycle francais’ in French, Spanish, English (‘The bicycle and motor-cycle in France, The end’) and German; text on elegant well-bred machines of French cycles and motor-cycles; full-width photograph of a lone bicycle rider on a tree-lined country road. 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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Panorama du Cycle
et du Motocycle Français
♥ FIN

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The closing French paragraphs say that, thanks to the multiplicity of equipment and accessories designed to fit it, each example of this production can nevertheless take on a personal character to suit its owner’s taste; and that the elegant, thoroughbred and perfectly finished cycles and motorcycles of France are designed « à l’échelle humaine » and can render everywhere, to those who trust them, the most useful services together with the ever renewed pleasure of agreeable, safe riding. The same closing text is printed on this sheet in Spanish, English and German; the English begins in mid-sentence.]

Panorama del Ciclo
y del Motociclo Franceses
♦ FIN

[Ebykr summary, in Spanish. The Spanish version, set in italic, makes the same two points as the French closing paragraphs: the multiplicity of equipment and accessories lets each example take on a personal character according to its owner’s taste, and the French cycles and motorcycles, elegant, thoroughbred and perfectly finished, are conceived on the « escala humana » and give those who trust them the most useful service with the ever renewed pleasure of agreeable, safe riding. The word « multiplicidad » is damaged in the first line and reads [illisible]tiplicidad.]

THE BICYCLE AND MOTOR-
CYCLE IN FRANCE
♣ THE END

[Ebykr summary, in English. The English text on this sheet begins in mid-sentence (« it is the product of intelligent legislature which conforms absolutely to the needs of the various classes of rider and to the will to work of the industry »), so its opening lies on an earlier page. The author goes on to say that French production has satisfied the great mass of modern riders so well that the classification adopted by France has been imitated by other countries; that every product of the industry can take on a personal character according to its owner’s tastes, thanks to the large variety of equipment, gadgets and accessories thought up for the purpose; and that French bicycles and motor-cycles, elegant, well-bred and highly developed, are created on a « human » scale and will always and everywhere give those who rely on them the greatest possible service together with the continual pleasure of agreeable, safe riding.]

DAS FRANZOESICHE FAHRRAD UND MOTORRAD
♠ DIE ENDE

[Ebykr summary, in German. The German version, in three paragraphs, makes three points: French production meets the wishes of a large modern body of buyers so completely that the classification created in France has now been taken over by other countries; the variety of fittings and accessories made for this production offers something for every taste, personal wish or style of the different users; and French production offers elegant, technically finished machines of high class that are fitted to the people who want to use them, and that can give useful service wherever they are trusted and bring fresh pleasure through safe and agreeable riding. In the last line the word « angenehmes » is partly lost and reads ang[illisible]hmes.]

[A text page closing a survey article, with a single large halftone photograph, on a plain ground with no advertiser. The upper half is set in four ruled boxes, two above and two below, each holding a title with a rule beneath it that carries a playing-card suit sign and the closing word in italic capitals. At the upper left the French title Panorama du Cycle et du Motocycle Français stands in heavy bold roman type over a heart sign and FIN; at the upper right the Spanish title Panorama del Ciclo y del Motociclo Franceses stands in the same heavy type over a diamond sign and FIN. Under each a short text runs in a single wide column, the French in roman sans-serif type and the Spanish in italic. Lower down, at the left, THE BICYCLE AND MOTOR-CYCLE IN FRANCE stands in thin shaded roman capitals over a club sign and THE END, and at the right DAS FRANZOESICHE FAHRRAD UND MOTORRAD stands in the same capitals over a spade sign and DIE ENDE. Beneath these the English and German texts run in roman type in a single column each, four to five short paragraphs. A full-width halftone photograph below them shows a lone cyclist in a dark jacket seen from behind, riding away down the middle of a wide empty paved road under a heavy cloudy sky, with young thin trees and telegraph poles along both verges and flat fields beyond. No caption, credit line, artist signature or agency mark is visible, and no text from the reverse of the leaf shows through.]