Les éclairages Huyghe-Vita — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 October 1955, Headlamps and Lighting Sets

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 33: huyghe-Vita lighting: round headlamp no. 65 on the mudguard, headlamp with built-in speedometer, new rear combined lamp, three photographs. 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 éclairages HUYGHE-VITA

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. The notice opens by presenting the firm’s current program in three numbered items. Item 1 is the round headlamp no. 65 for mounting on the mudguard (« Phare boule n° 65 sur garde-boue »), described as a small model that is well conceived and presented, lights perfectly and carries a small visor that looks very handsome.]

2° Phare-compteur.

[Ebykr summary, item 2. The headlamp with built-in speedometer is called extremely well studied and very handsome: the speedometer is fitted from inside the lamp, so it does not project above it and looks set into the lamp and part of it. The same lamp model can be used with the various Huret E.D.O.S. speedometers. On customers’ request it can be supplied with one or two bulbs, with the switch on the lamp or on the handlebar.]

3° Nouveau combiné AR.

[Ebykr summary, item 3. The new combined rear lamp is a much improved model compared with the previous one, offering every guarantee, very high luminosity and sturdiness. The notice adds that all these new articles come on top of the firm’s usual lines: other headlamp models for cycles, cyclomoteurs and dynamos, as well as well-known chains for cycles and cyclomoteurs. It closes that Vita-Vitalux now has a complete range of high-quality articles for fitting out cyclomoteurs.]

[A column notice in the magazine’s own type, headed in bold roman with the firm’s name in capitals, with italic running text. The text fills the left side of the column; the numbered items begin with bold roman headings. At the right a ruled rectangular panel holds three line drawings with halftone shading and no captions: at the top a round-nosed headlamp with a small visor and a bracket underneath, seen from the front and slightly from the side; below it a larger headlamp seen at an angle with a small round speedometer dial, its scale numbers visible up to 80, set into the top of the case and two small switches on the underside; at the lower right a wedge-shaped rear lamp with a ribbed side and a lens panel. No signature is visible. A solid round ornament closes the notice at the foot.]