Le parc cycliste français pour les trois dernières années — L’Officiel du cycle, 2 October 1954, Bicycles by Department, 1951 to 1953

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 2 October 1954, the paper’s special number before the 1954 Paris Salon du Cycle et du Motocycle, page 161: the table of the French bicycle stock for the last three years, 1951, 1952 and 1953, department by department, from the sale of fiscal stamps. The table is transcribed in full as printed, department by department, with its footnotes.

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LE PARC CYCLISTE FRANÇAIS
pour les trois dernières années

(Statistique fondée sur la vente des vignettes fiscales)

1951 — 1952 — 1953
Ain — 108.381 — 106.924 — 102.956
Aisne — 146.809 — 147.227 — 140.288
Allier — 130.105 — 128.358 — 122.223
Alpes (Basses-) — 15.329 — 15.375 — 14.294
Alpes (Hautes-) — 15.087 — 15.391 — 14.984
Alpes-Maritimes — 78.098 — 74.173 — 64.675
Ardèche — 52.003 — 51.799 — 49.080
Ardennes — 90.841 — 90.897 — 89.111
Ariège — 34.707 — 35.076 — 33.207
Aube — 102.037 — 101.165 — 98.152
Aude — 56.610 — 53.396 — 49.996
Aveyron — 59.494 — 59.589 — 57.925
Belfort (Territoire de) — 37.130 — 35.947 — 34.043
Bouches-du-Rhône — 134.091 — 132.456 — 122.771
Calvados — 151.921 — 149.382 — 138.295
Cantal — 32.325 — 31.056 — 29.702
Charente — 101.079 — 103.747 — 99.437
Charente-Maritime — 165.554 — 165.908 — 158.127
Cher — 105.015 — 105.152 — 99.557
Corrèze — 62.100 — 60.772 — 56.931
Corse — (1) — (1) — (1)
Côte-d’Or — 120.212 — 118.183 — 111.284
Côtes-du-Nord — 176.124 — 178.630 — 176.231
Creuse — 48.993 — 49.965 — 48.584
Dordogne — 124.236 — 124.348 — 119.776
Doubs — 97.759 — 95.159 — 89.589
Drôme — 66.910 — 66.149 — 60.604
Eure — 118.960 — 118.341 — 110.393
Eure-et-Loir — 100.565 — 99.368 — 94.865
Finistère — 190.292 — 196.261 — 195.452
Gard — 87.127 — 85.284 — 78.954
Garonne (Haute-) — 127.628 — 127.398 — 120.209
Gers — 56.809 — 56.687 — 55.135
Gironde — 254.752 — 258.141 — 243.576
Hérault — 95.236 — 91.889 — 85.067
Ille-et-Vilaine — 230.890 — 234.267 — 229.459
Indre — 98.887 — 98.293 — 95.767
Indre-et-Loire — 136.635 — 136.889 — 131.272
Isère — 161.833 — 161.986 — 154.022
Jura — 71.455 — 69.372 — 65.740
Landes — 108.713 — 108.325 — 105.866
Loir-et-Cher — 104.124 — 104.461 — 102.217
Loire — 127.552 — 126.541 — 121.370
Loire (Haute-) — 44.589 — 44.432 — 43.193
Loire-Inférieure — 262.316 — 264.594 — 257.148
Loiret — 145.529 — 144.677 — 138.546

1951 — 1952 — 1953
Lot — 38.471 — 38.923 — 37.077
Lot-et-Garonne — 100.769 — 100.147 — 95.920
Lozère — 17.686 — 17.974 — 17.511
Maine-et-Loire — 196.150 — 193.588 — 189.898
Manche — 168.648 — 169.197 — 164.945
Marne — 142.198 — 140.443 — 133.995
Marne (Haute-) — 65.682 — 65.707 — 63.618
Mayenne — 106.403 — 107.060 — 107.774
Meurthe-et-Moselle — 172.833 — 172.347 — 166.559
Meuse — 68.807 — 69.509 — 69.047
Morbihan — 162.588 — 166.692 — 169.206
Moselle — 190.781 — 194.244 — 191.985
Nièvre — 77.865 — 76.933 — 73.462
Nord — 630.559 — 628.168 — 599.952
Oise — 147.427 — 148.698 — 143.671
Orne — 107.227 — 108.751 — 107.125
Pas-de-Calais — 407.289 — 413.524 — 399.561
Puy-de-Dôme — 107.101 — 101.407 — 95.447
Pyrénées (Basses-) — 111.862 — 110.743 — 103.198
Pyrénées (Hautes-) — 42.459 — 44.140 — 44.867
Pyrénées-Orientales — 44.070 — 42.878 — 41.066
Rhin (Bas-) — 236.544 — 235.113 — 227.182
Rhin (Haut-) — 173.000 — 171.750 — 162.818
Rhône — 204.843 — 200.364 — 183.739
Saône (Haute-) — 68.998 — 67.798 — 65.585
Saône-et-Loire — 194.333 — 190.894 — 184.174
Sarthe — 180.166 — 180.014 — 178.072
Savoie — 54.013 — 53.104 — 50.845
Savoie (Haute-) — 71.078 — 68.265 — 64.143
Seine (2) — 778.412 — 709.814 — 631.650
Seine-Inférieure — 295.962 — 295.027 — 277.679
Seine-et-Marne — 146.833 — 145.229 — 139.115
Seine-et-Oise — 443.705 — 437.972 — 413.098
Sèvres (Deux-) — 117.798 — 117.256 — 114.037
Somme — 153.684 — 154.880 — 148.454
Tarn — 85.929 — 83.227 — 80.166
Tarn-et-Garonne — 46.356 — 47.842 — 46.881
Var — 69.799 — 68.101 — 64.468
Vaucluse — 67.842 — 67.664 — 61.803
Vendée — 171.221 — 172.272 — 170.499
Vienne — 112.166 — 111.086 — 106.115
Vienne (Haute-) — 82.332 — 81.494 — 78.412
Vosges — 126.191 — 124.093 — 119.918
Yonne — 90.082 — 88.736 — 84.034
Total (3) — 11.914.904 — 11.806.498 — 11.278.804

(1) Pas de vignette fiscale en Corse.

2) Les 9 plus forts départements sont désormais : 1° la Seine ; 2° le Nord ; 3° la Seine-et-Oise ; 4° le Pas-de-Calais ; 5° la Loire-Inférieure ;
6° la Gironde ; 7° l’Ille-et-Vilaine ; 8° le Bas-Rhin ; 9° la Seine-Inférieure.

(3) L’année 1951 reste l’année record, battant de 21.000 unités l’année 1949 (11.893.380 bicyclettes). Bien remarquer, d’ailleurs, que les cyclomoteurs (ou bicyclettes à moteur auxiliaire) étant dispensées de la vignette, ces machines, en nombre sans cesse croissant, ne figurent pas normalement dans la statistique.

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[A full page of statistics in black on a single ruled panel, text only with no drawing or photograph. The title “LE PARC CYCLISTE FRANÇAIS” is set across the head in large, widely spaced slab-serif capitals, with “pour les trois dernières années” centered below it in a large lowercase slab-serif face and the italic sans-serif line “(Statistique fondée sur la vente des vignettes fiscales)” under that. Below is a table in two side-by-side blocks of three number columns each, headed 1951, 1952 and 1953 in bold, each block with a short rule under the years and a vertical rule between the two blocks. The names of the French departments run in alphabetical order down the left of each block, joined to the figures by rows of dots; the left block runs from Ain to Loiret and the right block from Lot to Yonne, and a rule and a total line close the right block. Under the table, set off by rules, three small notes in a lighter roman face give the Corsica remark, the ranking of the nine largest departments and the comment on the record year 1951. The printed page number 161 stands at the lower right outside the ruled panel. Part of a heavy wavy border from the facing leaf shows along the left edge. No signature or agency mark.]