Motobécane-Motoconfort — L’Officiel du cycle, 1 October 1955, the Range from the Child’s Bicycle Up, a Salon Trade Notice

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 99: motobécane-Motoconfort range from the child’s bicycle to the 350 cm3 twin; Mobylette Service, Luxe and Mobymatic cyclomoteurs. 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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[Ebykr summary, part 1 of the notice; the article’s text is not reproduced. The Usines MOTOBÉCANE-MOTOCONFORT, with the creation of new factories at Saint-Quentin, have been able this year again to increase their already considerable production and to keep their position, the first in the world. True to their traditions, they present at the coming Salon the greatest variety of machines, from the child’s bicycle to the 350 cm3 twin (bicylindre), since these firms aim to let everyone choose the two-wheeler he needs among the bicycle, the cyclomoteur, the vélomoteur, the scooter and the motorcycle, and in each type to offer several models suited to different financial means.]

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. In the Mobylette sector the notice sees six different models this year, running from the “Service” Mobylette to the luxury “Mobymatic”. The “Service” model answers the wish of the buyer who wants to “se motoriser” in the most economical conditions of performance and safety, and carries the benefit of manufacturing experience covering more than a million machines. The same Mobylette also comes in a more luxurious version with rear drum hub, rubber pedals, saddle with sandow springs, leather saddlebag and fine lines enhancing the enamel of frame and fork. The same machine exists with an engine fitted with an automatic clutch, a formula said to be well known, whose advantages are listed as starting without any effort, the possibility of starting the engine with the machine on its stand, and the possibility of maneuvering the machine on foot and of stopping, all with the engine running. The “Luxe” Mobylette has a telescopic fork, front and rear drum brakes, a special profiled tank of large capacity (3 l. 500), a more powerful engine and of course the automatic clutch, in a luxurious presentation with light beige enamel. The same Mobylette equipped with a gear change is the “Mobymatic”, with three speeds and automatic changing, in which the engine selects, without any action by the rider, the speed best suited to road conditions; it also exists in a luxury version with enveloping mudguards, speedometer and luxurious decoration. Such a variety answers the general wish of the clientele for an easy machine and also individual tastes, according to whether interest lies in the refinements of a more evolved mechanism or in luxury of presentation, and the same concern to meet everyone’s wishes guided MOTOBÉCANE-MOTOCONFORT in the presentation of their models of vélomoteurs and motorcycles; the image ends with that sentence.]

[Text only, first of at least two images of one notice, with no heading in this part: a tall single column of justified text in a light sans-serif face in about ten paragraphs, the firm’s name MOTOBÉCANE-MOTOCONFORT set in capitals each time it occurs and the product names Mobylette, Mobymatic, Service and Luxe within guillemets. A small dark printing blot follows the full stop at the end of the ninth paragraph. The text stops at the foot of the image after the last sentence shown. No illustration, address, stand number or signature appears.]