Panorama du Cycle et du Motocycle Français — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 May 1954, the Opening of the Four-Language Survey with a Racing Cyclist and a Vélomoteur

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 11: panorama du Cycle et du Motocycle Français (also The Bicycle and Motor-Cycle in France, Panorama del Ciclo y del Motociclo Franceses, Das Französische Fahrrad und Motorrad): opening of the survey of French production in four languages; photographs show a vélomoteur front end and a young French racing cyclist applauded by a crowd. 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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L’avant remarquablement « construit » d’un vélomoteur très répandu.

The notably well-designed front of a popular « vélomoteur ».

Der bemerkenswert konstruierte Bug eines weitverbreiteten Kleinkraftrades.

La parte delantera notablemente « construida » de un velomotor muy difundido.

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The opening French paragraphs begin « NOUS allons nous efforcer de résumer ici les données essentielles sur la production française dans le Cycle, le Motocycle et les Industries annexes. » The author says the survey first sets out the categories into which French production is divided, and that the classification matters because it has been taken up internationally and its scale matches the needs of each possible use of each class of machine. A list of those categories follows on page 12 (« Suite page 12. »). The same short opening is printed in English (« Our intention here is to sum up the essentiel data on French production in the bicycle, motor-cycle and connected industries », continued « See page 12. »), in Spanish (continued « Continua p. 12. ») and in German (continued « Fortsetzung S. 12. »).]

THE BICYCLE AND MOTOR-CYCLE IN FRANCE
Panorama del Ciclo y del Motociclo Franceses

Un jeune espoir français applaudi par une foule nombreuse.

A young French hope applauded by a large crowd.

Eine junge französische Hoffnung begrüsst von einer zahlreichen Menge.

Un jóven « espoir » francés aplaudido por la muchedumbre.

[A full page opening of a survey article, text and halftone photographs on a plain ground, with no advertiser. Across the middle a two-line heading spans the full width: THE BICYCLE AND MOTOR-CYCLE IN FRANCE in thin shaded roman capitals, and below it Panorama del Ciclo y del Motociclo Franceses in heavy black slab-serif lowercase. At the top left a ruled caption panel with arrowheads at its corners holds the French, English, German and Spanish captions in italic and roman type. At the upper right a tall halftone photograph, taken from low and close, shows the front end of a small motorized bicycle: curved handlebars with a round gauge set in the headlamp shell, a fork, a deep dark tank with a pale oval panel, and a spoked front wheel. Below the heading at the lower left a second halftone photograph shows a young racing cyclist in dark sunglasses and a dark jersey with lettering across the chest and sleeves, riding toward the viewer on a drop-handlebar road bicycle along a tree-lined road with a crowd of onlookers behind him. At the lower right a second ruled caption panel carries the four-language caption for that photograph. Text columns in French, English, Spanish (italic) and German each begin with a large decorative initial and end with a page-turn line marked by a playing-card suit sign. No signature or agency mark is visible, and no text from the reverse of the leaf shows through.]