L’Officiel du cycle January 1957 Cover — Progrès Gitane, Two Cyclomoteurs

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Fondateur :
Félix LAINÉ

N° 2
19 Janvier 1957
67ᵉ ANNÉE

L’OFFICIEL DU CYCLE & DU MOTOCYCLE

61, Grande-Armée – PARIS

ORGANE D’INFORMATION ET DE DOCUMENTATION DES PROFESSIONS DU CYCLE ET DU MOTOCYCLE

Songez Choisissez PROGRÈS GITANE

CYCLOMOTEUR GRAND LUXE
type 57 bis – moteur VAP 55

caréné, réservoir semi-chromé, compteur kilométrique, avertisseur électrique, roues 23×2.00

CYCLOMOTEUR TYPE 67
équipé du moteur VAP 55

cadre avec coque emboutie et soudée, suspension arrière, avertisseur électrique, roues 23×2.00

GITANE

MACHECOUL (Loire-Infʳᵉ)

[A front cover printed in black and green: the masthead title in white on a broad black brushstroke heads the page, with a vertical green strip down the left side carrying the founder’s name, a triangular emblem (a black chainwheel ringed by three stylized white riders with wheels) and the paper’s motto set sideways, reading upward. Below, a Gitane panel fills the page: a white road winds in an S-curve across a green field, and two photographs of Gitane cyclomoteurs sit on it, above a Grand Luxe type 57 bis with a faired frame, deep valanced mudguards and a rear carrier, below a type 67 with a pressed-steel shell frame, a single saddle and rear suspension struts, each with its caption in a black bar. In the lower left corner a line drawing shows a man in a bowler hat seated on a roadside kilometer stone marked “N.3”, beside a high-wheel ordinary bicycle. A small signature sits at the foot of this drawing, in the lower left corner of the green panel: a white-outlined letter (perhaps a “J” or “S”) followed by “C.”, reading uncertain.]