L’antivol Neiman — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 October 1955, the Steering Lock for Motorcycles, Bicycles and Scooters

From L’Officiel du cycle, du motocycle et du camping, 1 October 1955, N° 20, the paper’s special number before the Salon du Cycle at the Porte de Versailles, page 41: neiman moto, bicycle and scooter steering lock with removable key; long lists of motorcycle, scooter, cyclomoteur and bicycle makers that fit it; luggage-box locks. 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’antivol moto-vélo-scooter NEIMAN

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. Neiman goes on making its motorcycle, bicycle and scooter steering lock with a removable lock, which the notice says has proved itself over several million units produced. The removable lock is economical for the manufacturer, who can provide only the housing on the production line and supply the lock as an extra. Because the lock stays attached to its key and is removed while riding, it reminds the user to “get rid of” it when stopping, so the lock becomes quickly automatic in use.]

[Ebykr summary, continued. Neiman has nevertheless patented a steering lock that looks like this well-known model but has a fixed lock. Its system is described as very simple and original: it locks itself automatically in its housing, even if the motorcyclist does not turn the key when unlocking the steering, so that a rider who sets off without removing the key and strikes it by mistake does not risk locking the steering. The system has been adopted as standard by Terrot on its 250 cc motorcycles and by many large motorcycle and scooter manufacturers, listed in the notice as follows.]

en Allemagne : Anker, Ardie, Bastert, B.M.W., Bücker, D.K.W., Dürkopp, Express, Geïer, Glas, Goricke, Hecker, Heinkel, Hercules, Horex, N.S.U. (motos), N.S.U. (cyclomoteurs), Lutz, Maïco, Pamag, Rabeneick, Rixe, Royal, Steib (sidecars), Torpédo, Triumph (T.W.N.), Triumph (cyclomoteurs), U.T., Victoria, Zündapp, Zündapp-Bella, Zündapp-Moped ;
au Danemark : Chrystensens, Dansk Cycle Industri, Diesella, Grand, Jorgensen, Jyden, Nellemann, Nielsens, Redux, Smith ;
en Belgique : F.N. ;
en Suède : Nymanbelagen.

[Ebykr summary, continued. The removable-lock model is fitted as standard by the following French manufacturers.]

sur les motos ou cyclomoteurs : Aiglon, Automoto, Bima-Peugeot, Gnome-Rhône, Griffon, Météore, Peugeot, Trophée de France ;
sur les scooters Bernardet, Lambretta, Magnat-Debon, Mors, Motobécane, Peugeot, Speed, Terrot ;
en Belgique, par les marques Lion Rapide, scooters Piatti, F.N., etc.

[Ebykr summary, continued. The notice also names these French and foreign bicycle makers as users of the lock.]

Aiglon, Gnome-Rhône, Göricke, Griffon, Hercules (Allemagne), Météore, N.S.U., Peugeot, Riva-Sport, Ruche, Terrot, Triumph (T.W.N.), Trophée de France.

[Ebykr summary, continued. A robot fitted with counters stands on the Neiman stand and performs all the maneuvers of the lock to show its simplicity and security. The notice remarks that M. Neiman was able to recover his factory in Germany and later bought the buildings of the Tornax motorcycle factory; all his equipment is now moved into the new, spacious buildings, which allows him to keep pace with the German market and its growing number of manufacturers. The Neiman plant at Croissy-sur-Seine is fully equipped to meet every demand of the French market and of export, since the Ingenia-Neiman plant in Germany works only for that country, the export of Neiman locks and suspensions being reserved to the French plant.]

Serrures de coffre :

[Ebykr summary, continued. Neiman also supplies the luggage-box lock paired with the steering lock, a principle adopted by all German manufacturers and some French ones.]

[A text-only editorial notice set in a single column. A bold roman heading, “L’antivol moto-vélo-scooter NEIMAN”, stands at the head, right-aligned. Below it the body runs in italic roman type in short paragraphs with indented first lines, the firm name Neiman set in small capitals and a few phrases picked out in bold roman (“La serrure amovible a l’avantage d’être économique”, “en série”, “nombreux grands Constructeurs de motos et scooters”, “Un robot muni de compteurs est installé sur le stand Neiman”, “Serrures de coffre :”). Two long run-in lists of maker names, German, Danish, Belgian, Swedish and French, fill the middle of the column. There are no drawings or photographs. A single solid black dot closes the notice at the foot. No signature or agency mark appears.]