Parmi les Réceptions de la période du Salon Cycle et Moto — L’Officiel du cycle, November 1954, Drawn by Siss

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, November 1954, the paper’s number reporting the 1954 Paris Salon du Cycle et du Motocycle, pages 9 and 11: two pages of drawings by Siss and notes on the receptions given during the Salon, naming those present. 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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Cocktails, conférences, réunions, banquets

Parmi les Réceptions
de la période
du Salon Cycle et Moto

A la Conférence de Presse du Comité d’organisation du Salon, on reconnaît de g. à d. : le Baron PETIET, Président; son fils, M. Roger PETIET ; MM. de GRENIER de LATOUR Président des Constructeurs de Motocycles ; LEMAIGRE, Président des Constructeurs d’Automobiles ; LEMARIÉ, Président des Fabricants d’Équipements ; MAUTIN, Secrétaire général du Salon ; GIRARDET, Président des Constructeurs de Cycles.

SISS

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The Salon du Cycle period brought, as usual, receptions by the trade bodies and by a number of industrial firms, reported here in brief with apologies for any omissions; MM. Alexis TANTET, Directeur général, and Jacques CATINAT, Directeur-Rédacteur en chef, represented l’Officiel du Cycle et du Motocycle. On Monday 11 October, at the salons Ledoyen on the Champs-Elysées, the Société S. A. Movea, importer of B.S.A. and Sunbeam, gave a cocktail party at which M. Jean RABUTEAU, its Président-Directeur général, received the firm’s many friends. On Monday 11 October also came the plenary session of the 41e Congrès National of the Fédération Nationale des Vélocistes et Motocistes, the Fédération Nationale du Commerce et de l’Artisanat de l’Automobile and the Syndicat Général des Garagistes-Motoristes, Motocistes et Vélocistes de France et de l’Union française, followed by the traditional banquet before the highest personalities, reported elsewhere in this issue. On Sunday 10 October, at the hôtel George V, the Société Vélosolex, maker of the celebrated cyclomoteur that began the immense spread of this popular means of transport in France, gave a brilliant reception. On Thursday 16 September, for the start of the Tour de France Motos, the Établissements Macombyn gave a cocktail party at the Centre sportif des Forces armées at Joinville, already reported; every military entrant in that event wore Macombyn riding suits. On Friday 15 October, in a large hotel on the Champs-Elysées, the Société Lavalette received and entertained its agents from France and abroad, some six hundred guests who made the vast rooms seem too small; the paragraph runs on to page 11 with the name of M. BOUCHINET-SERREULLES.]

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A la
réception
B.P. –
F.F.M.

On reconnaît de gauche à droite : MM. VIOLET, Président de la Commission de Motocross de la F.F.M. ; Georges et Pierre MONNERET, nos champions nationaux ; LE BOLOCH, Directeur du Service Lubrifiants B.P. ; le Capitaine PERRIER, Chargé du Sport National pour les Trois Armes ; BOUVET, Président de la Ligue Motocycliste de l’Ile-de-France.

SISS

[Ebykr summary, continuing the Lavalette paragraph from page 9. M. BOUCHINET-SERREULLES, Président-Directeur général, M. LEJEUNE, Directeur général, M. LAIRY, Directeur commercial, and MM. GHERTSOS and MERCIER of the board received the guests; M. VULLIERME, director of the Lavalette engine branch, and his deputy M. BLIN talked at length with the many personalities of the Cycle and Motocycle trade present, among them very important makers of cyclomoteurs and motorcycles, and the reception ran very late into the evening. On the evening of Monday 11 October the Chambre Fédérale du Commerce en gros du Cycle held its annual banquet at the hôtel Lutétia; after dinner Président LAVALLE gave a most interesting speech, followed by a witty address from M. GIRARDET, Président de la Chambre Syndicale Nationale des Constructeurs de Cycles. On Wednesday 13 October the Chambre Syndicale Nationale du Motocycle gave a luncheon for a brilliant gathering of trade figures and the highest officials of the Administration, under the chairmanship of M. DE GRENIER DE LATOUR; the Fédération Nationale des Vélocistes et Motocistes was represented by its Président, M. GIROT, and its Secrétaire général, M. Jacques CATINAT. Finally, a few days after the Salon closed, the Société des Moteurs Le Poulain gave a cocktail party for the riders who made a double performance on cyclomoteurs fitted with the new Myster engine: two days before the Salon one of these machines climbed the cols « de Leffray du Galibier, de l’Izoard et de l’Iseran », with the bicycle chain removed, and from 14 to 24 October another ran 10.000 km at Montlhéry.]

On reconnaît de gauche à droite : MM. MEYER (Société Dynex) ; ENDERS (Société Otom) ; BACLIN (Société Dynex) ; BOUCHARD, Directeur des Établissements Nadella ; JEAN, Directeur général adjoint de la Société Le Poulain ; ARLIGUIE, le Constructeur de Montargis ; LAVALLE, Président de la Chambre des Grossistes ; Serge de la OLIVA.

Au cocktail
de la
Société des
moteurs
Le Poulain

SISS

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[Two facing pages of social reporting framed by thin ruled borders that end in arrowheads. Page 9 opens with a wide pen-and-ink caricature of seven men in suits at the Salon committee’s press conference, among them a bald man with round spectacles and a lapel badge, a bespectacled man holding a rolled paper and two men with folded arms at the right; the drawing is signed “SISS” at the lower right, and its caption, set in roman with names in small capitals, sits in a ruled box at the left. Below runs the italic report with a large initial “L” and bullet dots between items, and the page closes on a ruled panel whose small heavy italic sans-serif kicker reads “Cocktails, conférences, réunions, banquets” over the bold sans-serif headline “Parmi les Réceptions de la période du Salon Cycle et Moto”. Page 11 carries two more Siss caricatures, each signed “SISS” at the lower right: at the top, labeled “A la réception B.P. – F.F.M.” between asterisk ornaments, a group of men in suits, one smoking a cigarette and one in a bow tie; at the foot, labeled “Au cocktail de la Société des moteurs Le Poulain”, a group of men conversing, a young man in a slim suit standing by a small table with a glass. The two names captions sit in ruled boxes and the italic report fills the band between them; the folio “11” stands at the lower right. No signature other than Siss appears on either page.]