Moyeux à vitesse Sturmey-Archer — L’Officiel du cycle, 21 December 1957, Soffa Takes Over the French Distribution

A notice in L’Officiel du cycle, 21 December 1957, page 4, “Moyeux à vitesse Sturmey-Archer”: Sturmey-Archer Gears Ltd of Nottingham names the Société Soffa its distributor for France and the French overseas territories, with its Paris and Nanterre addresses and telephone numbers. The heading is transcribed as printed; the text is summarized in Ebykr’s words.

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Moyeux à vitesse STURMEY-ARCHER

[Ebykr summary; the article’s text is not reproduced. A trade notice on Sturmey-Archer gear hubs. The Société Sturmey-Archer Gears Ltd of Nottingham, England (printed “Angleterre”), announces that the distribution of Sturmey-Archer products in France and in the French overseas territories has been entrusted to the Société Soffa, 30, rue Pergolèse, Paris (16e). The notice adds that Soffa’s sales and technical services are at 60, avenue Félix-Faure à Nanterre (Seine), with the telephone numbers BOILEAU 29-83 and LONGCHAMP 05-51 (the exchange name is printed broken over a line end as “LONG-CHAMP”).]

[The notice is text only, with no drawing or photograph.]

[The notice sits in the “Notre Carnet” column, under the column heading with its small drawing of a village church; the rest of the column (the “NÉCROLOGIE” notice and the item on Giuseppe Benelli) is not part of this record.]