Vu à la Foire de Paris — L’Officiel du cycle, 6 July 1957, Drawn by G. Gédo

“Vu à la Foire de Paris”, L’Officiel du cycle, 6 July 1957, page 10, by G. Gédovius (“Par GÉDO”): six products seen at the 1957 Paris Fair, drawn and captioned, among them the BEEP horn for toy bicycles and the Kertz trailer for cycles and tandems. The title, byline and the captions’ lead names are transcribed as printed; the captions are summarized in Ebykr’s words.

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VU A LA FOIRE DE PARIS

Par GÉDO

FRANCE-AUTOS. —

POUPY-SPORTS. —

TAILLANDIER. —
(1) (2) (3)

P.W.B. —

KERTZ. —

SAUVAGE. —

1
2
3

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. Six captioned drawings of products seen at the Paris Fair (Foire de Paris). FRANCE-AUTOS represents a small horn (avertisseur) for cycles, the BEEP, made in HONG-KONG, whose streamlined case holds a pocket-lamp battery; it fits children’s kick scooters (patinettes) and toy bicycles. POUPY-SPORTS shows the PRINCIPAUTÉ pushchair (poussette) with parasol, which folds in a few seconds by releasing its two catches (shown in a detail); the adjustable parasol can be covered or replaced by a hood, and folded the pushchair measures 25 cm high, 35 cm wide and 70 cm long and weighs 7 kg. TAILLANDIER’s FULGUR trailer (remorque) for all motorcycles from 125 cm3 up has a new hitch fork in which two tubes replace the earlier triangulated frame; it adjusts by extension through sliding tubes (1), by the spread of its arms (2) and in angle by a bolted joint (3). P.W.B. offers a lever, fitted at the bottom bracket (pédalier) of cyclomoteurs that have a rear drum brake, which turns the handlebar cable control into a rod control worked by back-pedaling (rétropédalage). KERTZ shows a special trailer for cycles, tandems and cyclomoteurs, payload 30 kg and empty weight 10 kg, with a detail of its wheel suspension by a horizontal spring. SAUVAGE’s cyclomoteur LE PETIT SAUVAGE, with an ITOM engine, has a telescopic seat post and a folding handlebar whose arms are held by a lug and a knurled clamping knob.]

[Six line drawings by Gédo, each beside its boxed caption. Upper left: the BEEP horn, a streamlined egg-shaped case opened to show the cylindrical mechanism inside, with its cable and a handlebar clamp with push-button; the words “GOOD LUCK” are lettered on the lid; signed “G.GEDO” at the lower right of the drawing, beside the push-button. Upper right: the folding pushchair with its flat parasol canopy, small spoked wheels and a basket, with a framed detail of the folding catch at its right; signed “G.GEDO” at the foot of the drawing, just right of the lowest wheel. Middle left: the FULGUR trailer hitch fork, its two curved tubes clamped to a motorcycle’s rear frame, with the numbers 1, 2 and 3 marking the sliding tube, the spread of the arms (with a double arrow) and the bolted joint; signed “G. GEDO” at the lower right, below the joint. Middle right: the P.W.B. lever, a hand fitting a notched ring on a bottom-bracket axle with the lever arm, crank and brake rod beside it; signed “G.GEDO” at the left, below the notched ring. Lower left: the KERTZ trailer frame and fender, with the coil spring of the horizontal wheel suspension; signed “GEDO”, with no initial visible, at the lower left corner of the drawing. Lower right: the folding handlebar stem of LE PETIT SAUVAGE with its two knurled knobs and a curved arrow showing the fold; signed “G.GEDO” at the lower right. Six Gédo signatures in all, none with an accent on the E.]

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