Les remorques pour cycles Popula — L’Officiel du cycle, 2 October 1954, from « Deux-Roues » 1955

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 149: the survey “Deux-Roues 1955” on the Popula bicycle trailers of the Établissements Prost of Villeurbanne, in a light touring type and a roomy utility type, over two columns. 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 remorques pour cycles POPULA

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The Établissements PROST of Villeurbanne produce a whole series of trailers for bicycles, of which two types are named. The “tourisme” type is described as a very pretty touring trailer, extra light, built entirely of steel tubes and enameled aluminum, on 400 wheels with balloon tires and ball-bearing stub-axle hubs, with wheel covers (enjoliveurs). It has a removable arm with a hand steering bar and rubber grips, and a removable clip-on attachment that allows instant coupling to any bicycle. The “utilitaire” type is described as a roomy, all-metal body, undeformable and indestructible, enameled aluminum, with a plywood floor and independent 350 wheels fitted with “bandages”; the sentence runs on to the next section.]

[A short run of body text only, in a single wide column under a heading. The heading “Les remorques pour cycles POPULA” is set in a bold heavy roman face, with a small solid star before the first word and the brand name POPULA in capitals. The text below is in regular roman type with two dash-led entries, one for each trailer type, the second breaking off at the foot of the crop. There is no drawing, no photograph, no signature and no address block in this part.]

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[Ebykr summary, continuing the sentence on the utility trailer; the article’s text is not reproduced. The utility trailer runs on puncture-proof tires (“bandages increvables”) with ball-bearing hubs. Its traction-spring suspension is adjustable, so the softness can be changed to suit the load carried. It has a detachable arm with a bar for steering by hand, and a special hitch.]

[Ebykr summary, after the photograph; the article’s text is not reproduced. The single-wheel trailer (“la remorque monoroue”) is an extra-light model built entirely of steel tubes with an enameled aluminum finish. It attaches directly to the rear hub of a bicycle or a tandem by means of a special nut, and the writer calls its stability absolute. It has a 300 wheel with a balloon tire, ball bearings, an enveloping mudguard, a large body capacity and easy tie-down of parcels. A closing paragraph states that all the two-wheel models are fitted with the POPULA hitch, with a spring clip and a spring-loaded joint; it needs no fixture on the bicycle itself, and for steering by hand it folds away and comes to rest inside the drawbar of the trailer.]

[Text and one photograph, in a single wide column. Four lines of regular roman text open the page, then a halftone photograph of a trailer stands inside a thin black ruled box that is wider than it is tall, with no caption beneath it. The photograph shows a trailer seen from above and the side: an open frame of slim tubes forms a low boxlike body with diagonal braces and a flat floor panel, one spoked wheel with a balloon tire sits at the near side, and a short drawbar ends in a rounded fitting at the right. Below the box, eleven lines of text follow, made of one dash-led paragraph and one indented paragraph. There is no signature, no firm address block and no agency mark on this part.]