Le Parc cycliste français pour les trois dernières années — L’Officiel du cycle, 22 June 1957, Bicycles by Département 1954–1956

“Le parc cycliste français pour les trois dernières années”, L’Officiel du cycle, 22 June 1957: the official number of bicycles in each French département in 1954, 1955 and 1956, counted from the sale of the yearly fiscal vignette, with the national totals (10.56 million in 1954, 9.89 million in 1955, 8.78 million in 1956). The table, its title and footnotes are transcribed in full as printed; the description and summary are Ebykr’s.

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LE PARC CYCLISTE FRANÇAIS
pour les trois dernières années

(Statistique officielle fondée sur la vente des vignettes fiscales)

| 1956 | 1955 | 1954
Ain | 84.186 | 93.126 | 96.266
Aisne | 119.206 | 127.396 | 132.759
Allier | 92.294 | 106.382 | 112.622
Alpes (Basses-) | 10.171 | 11.782 | 13.017
Alpes (Hautes-) | 31.342 | 13.048 | 13.930
Alpes-Maritimes | 36.855 | 47.419 | 55.652
Ardèche | 36.171 | 42.567 | 45.267
Ardennes | 75.531 | 81.632 | 86.002
Ariège | 26.173 | 29.765 | 31.364
Aube | 83.860 | 89.919 | 94.078
Aude | 31.062 | 38.675 | 43.458
Aveyron | 41.807 | 50.177 | 54.140
Belfort (Territoire de) | 27.499 | 30.563 | 32.218
Bouches-du-Rhône | 66.938 | 90.080 | 103.770
Calvados | 108.465 | 119.427 | 128.538
Cantal | 21.816 | 25.685 | 27.269
Charente | 76.421 | 87.009 | 91.932
Charente-Maritime | 126.297 | 141.547 | 149.067
Cher | 77.732 | 87.377 | 93.004
Corrèze | 41.382 | 48.956 | 52.257
Corse | 5.327 | |
Côte-d’Or | 93.924 | 102.187 | 105.491
Côtes-du-Nord | 149.259 | 164.831 | 170.792
Creuse | 38.556 | 44.212 | 46.896
Dordogne | 88.836 | 104.130 | 113.531
Doubs | 69.085 | 79.644 | 83.956
Drôme | 40.648 | 50.484 | 54.730
Eure | 88.076 | 96.685 | 103.889
Eure-et-Loir | 77.957 | 85.531 | 89.330
Finistère | 154.750 | 175.050 | 186.286
Gard | 51.456 | 63.374 | 72.071
Garonne (Haute-) | 81.008 | 99.789 | 109.372
Gers | 40.327 | 47.217 | 50.711
Gironde | 177.505 | 207.262 | 224.297
Hérault | 56.114 | 69.980 | 75.794
Ille-et-Vilaine | 210.177 | 221.909 | 226.871
Indre | 80.048 | 87.200 | 92.707
Indre-et-Loire | 101.356 | 114.718 | 122.550
Isère | 114.565 | 132.142 | 141.843
Jura | 51.168 | 57.292 | 61.724
Landes | 86.253 | 96.054 | 100.952
Loir-et-Cher | 84.143 | 92.525 | 97.618
Loire | 89.645 | 103.241 | 111.413
Loire (Haute-) | 33.607 | 38.241 | 40.345
Loire-Inférieure | 222.587 | 240.950 | 251.561
Loiret | 110.214 | 121.515 | 130.140

| 1956 | 1955 | 1954
Lot | 27.001 | 32.828 | 34.220
Lot-et-Garonne | 70.030 | 82.359 | 89.454
Lozère | 13.951 | 15.733 | 16.723
Maine-et-Loire | 159.699 | 174.754 | 183.304
Manche | 141.550 | 152.340 | 159.553
Marne | 104.854 | 116.118 | 125.386
Marne (Haute-) | 53.543 | 58.159 | 61.894
Mayenne | 92.306 | 99.172 | 104.730
Meurthe-et-Moselle | 130.395 | 144.506 | 156.358
Meuse | 58.248 | 62.830 | 66.460
Morbihan | 150.345 | 164.688 | 167.183
Moselle | 151.700 | 168.655 | 181.892
Nièvre | 59.832 | 66.860 | 69.553
Nord | 481.858 | 532.946 | 568.362
Oise | 120.622 | 130.951 | 138.771
Orne | 88.861 | 97.179 | 103.190
Pas-de-Calais | 318.660 | 356.690 | 378.957
Puy-de-Dôme | 66.654 | 77.311 | 85.039
Pyrénées (Basses-) | 72.847 | 85.523 | 93.852
Pyrénées (Hautes-) | 34.306 | 43.634 | 41.792
Pyrénées-Orientales | 30.682 | 35.714 | 37.574
Rhin (Bas-) | 189.366 | 204.536 | 214.220
Rhin (Haut-) | 128.323 | 142.228 | 153.185
Rhône | 124.635 | 147.269 | 164.402
Saône (Haute-) | 53.720 | 59.065 | 62.512
Saône-et-Loire | 149.407 | 167.738 | 176.614
Sarthe | 155.035 | 167.235 | 173.557
Savoie | 40.115 | 44.456 | 46.987
Savoie (Haute-) | 46.967 | 54.304 | 58.750
Seine (1) | 372.692 | 460.237 | 533.723
Seine-Maritime | 210.084 | 238.357 | 256.812
Seine-et-Marne | 109.288 | 122.675 | 130.754
Seine-et-Oise | 315.489 | 352.233 | 379.955
Sèvres (Deux-) | 97.382 | 105.677 | 109.547
Somme | 125.628 | 135.105 | 142.099
Tarn | 58.331 | 69.877 | 74.805
Tarn-et-Garonne | 35.704 | 43.587 | 46.286
Var | 42.388 | 51.763 | 58.172
Vaucluse | 38.794 | 48.062 | 54.442
Vendée | 156.026 | 165.428 | 168.738
Vienne | 80.756 | 90.472 | 99.248
Vienne (Haute-) | 58.927 | 68.259 | 74.096
Vosges | 103.290 | 111.402 | 116.625
Yonne | 68.590 | 75.825 | 79.482
Total (2) | 8.780.680 | 9.888.435 | 10.560.720

(1) Les 9 plus forts départements sont désormais : 1° le Nord ; 2° la Seine ; 3° le Pas-de-Calais ; 4° la Seine-et-Oise ; 5° la Loire-Inférieure ; 6° la Seine-Maritime ; 7° l’Ille-et-Vilaine ; 8° la Gironde ; 9° le Bas-Rhin.

(2) L’année 1951 reste l’année record, battant de 21.000 unités l’année 1949 (11.893.380 bicyclettes). Bien remarquer, d’ailleurs que les cyclomoteurs (ou bicyclettes à moteur auxiliaire) étant dispensées de la vignette, ces machines, en nombre sans cesse croissant, ne figurent pas normalement dans la statistique.

[A full page boxed in a single rule: the title in large capitals over a lowercase second line and an italic subtitle, then the statistical table set in two blocks of four columns (département with dotted leaders, then 1956, 1955 and 1954, each year headed by a short dash), the left block running Ain to Loiret and the right block Lot to Yonne, with the totals under a rule at the foot of the right block and the two numbered notes under a full-width rule; the Corse row gives a 1956 figure only, its 1955 and 1954 cells blank; no drawings or photographs.]

[The figures, from the sale of the bicycle tax disc, show the French bicycle stock falling each year, from 10.560.720 in 1954 to 9.888.435 in 1955 and 8.780.680 in 1956 (about 11 percent down on 1955 and 17 percent on 1954); the largest départements in 1956 are Nord (481.858), Seine (372.692), Pas-de-Calais (318.660), Seine-et-Oise (315.489) and Loire-Inférieure (222.587), the smallest Corse (5.327) and Alpes (Basses-) (10.171); the notes rank the nine largest départements, give 1951 as the record year, 21.000 ahead of 1949 (the figure of 11.893.380 bicycles is set in parentheses after 1949 and may belong to either year) and warn that mopeds, exempt from the disc, are not counted.]

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